Principles of Human Geography The Principles of Economic Geography

Abstract

THE almost simultaneous appearance of two educational works on geography bearing very similar titles is not without significance. It shows the pressure of circumstances leading to the further elimination from geographical teaching of the mere enumeration of facts which has long been felt to be a desideratum, and to substitute an exposition which may claim to be regarded as a statement of principles. The result is, at any rate, the publication of two very good books, which may be welcomed as forming an important contribution to the definition of geography as it is coming more and more to be apprehended in the higher teaching of the subject. They may both be looked upon as going far towards supplying what the present reviewer has long felt to be a want among geographical text-books—a physical geography in which the main stress is laid upon influences, direct and indirect, on human life connected with place, rather than upon that aspect of the subject which looks to geology as its natural development; that in which almost the entire emphasis is laid on the operations by which the earth's crtist undergoes modification. Principles of Human Geography. By E. Huntington S. W. Cushing. Pp. xiv + 430. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1921.) 21s. net. The Principles of Economic Geography. By Dr. R. N. Rudmose Brown. (Pitman's Economic Library.) Pp. xv + 208. (London: Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., 1920.) 10s. 6d. net.