The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great. By J.
W. McCrindle. (Archibald Constable and Co.)—Mr. MoCrindle gives in his introduction a list of the writers who, either directly or indirectly, contribute to our knowledge of Alexander's campaigns in India. Our direct authorities are Arrian, Q. Curtius, Diodorus Siculus, Plutarch, and Justin. All of these were long after Alexander's time, but they had an unusual amount of contemporary information to draw from, and one of them, at least, was qualified to be a critical historian. We have in this volume such portions of these five authors as bear upon the subject. In his appendices, Mr. McCrindle discusses various points of difficulty, geographical, historical, and military, illustrating them with matter from other sources. For the battle with Porus, for instance, he quotes from the " Stratagemata " of Polycenus. A "Biographical Appen- dix" will be found very useful. There are some maps and a number of coins excellently reproduced.
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