CURRENT LITERATURE.
GIFT-BOOKS.
The Cities of the World. By Edwin Hodder. (Cassell and Co.)— 'This is the third and concluding volume of a most interesting work. There are eleven chapters, eight of which are devoted to as many great cities,—viz., Jerusalem, Athens, Rome, Florence, Moscow, Berlin, Geneva, and Philadelphia (written by Mr. M. F. Sweetster). Three others deal with groups,—" Brussels and the Cities of Belgium," "The Cities of New Zealand," "Scandinavian Cities." It is no small credit to Mr. Hodder that, whatever the place, he seems to be equally at home, and describes in a very vigorous and lively fashion. We may be allowed, however, to point out, under the title "Athens," -that it is incorrect to say of the "Long Walls" that "one was built by Pericles, and the other by Themistocles, 456-431 B.C." Themistocles was ostracised in 471, and fled to the Court of Artaxerxes in 4435. The walls mast practically have been finished befere 431, when the Peloponnesian war broke out. The illustrations throughout the volume are plentiful and good.
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