10 JULY 1897, Page 26

The Long Walls. By Eldridge S. Brooks and John Alden.

(G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—An American boy goes with his uncle to Athens for the purpose of exploration. Their adventures and successes are recorded here in a pleasant fashion. The reader will learn from the volume something about the marvellous contributions which the spade is so busy nowadays in making to our knowledge of ancient life. The story has a grand denouement, —the discovery of a splendid statue of Demeter and a huge treasure. But what the explorers do, or fail to do, with it the reader must discover for himself.