When De Soto found it, he was not hunting for a river, and had no present occasion for one consequently he did not value it, or even take any particular notice of it.” There are some good touches in this opening portion as where the author refers to “ Louis XIV., of inflated memory,” and, speaking of the indifference which attended the discovery of the Mississippi, remarks, “ Apparently, nobody happened to want such a river, nobody needed it, nobody was curious about it so, for a century and a half, the Mississippi remained out of the market and undisturbed. Clemens quaintly calls “ historical history,” as distinguished from that other unconventional history, which he does not define, but certainly embodies in the most graphic form. In the three introductory ones which precede these, the physical character of the river is sketched, and brief reference is made to the early travelers and explorers of the stream, - De Soto, Marquette, and La Salle these latter belonging to the epoch of what Mr. Clemens’s book, 1 twelve are reprinted from The Atlantic but they are so full of entertaining and instructive matter that they will repay a second reading. Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.OF the first fifteen chapters of Mr.
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