17 JUNE 1905, Page 25

An Account of Virginia. By Thomas Glover. (B. IL Blackwell,

Oxford. 3s. 6d. net.) —In 1676 Mr. Thomas Glover, "an ingenious cliirurgoon," communicated to the Royal Society "an account of Virginia, its situation, temperature, productions, and inhabitants, and their manner of planting and ordering tobacco." It has been now reprinted in facsimile.