We have received from Messrs. W. and A. K. Johnston,
The Unrivalled Classical Atlas and The World Classical Atlas, which are the same Woke in a slightly different shape, the first being of a quarto, the
second of a very large octavo size, each containing twenty-three maps. Some of the special maps are very useful. One, divided into two parts, illustrates the geography of the " Iliad " and the " Odyssey." Another, giving us in the centre the " Orbis Terrarum Notus usque ad Alexandri Magni Tempera," correctly drawn, also supplies as with the delinea- tions of the world as Homer, Hecatanis, Herodotus, Democritus, Era- tosthenes, and Ptolemy respectively conceived of it. This view of the progress of geographical knowledge is curious and interesting. In the central map it is perhaps misleading that the outlines of Great Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia, and other countries, of which but the slightest knowledge was possessed by the contemporaries of Alexander, are fully given. The map of Italy is furnished with plans of the environs of Rome; of Campania, the most favourite of the "home counties" of Rome, and of Syracuse. The Empire of Rome is presented under throe aspects,—its widest range under Trajan, its division into Eastern and Western, and its extent when the West had been lost. With Greece we have Athens, the Acropolis, Salamis, Thermopylae, and Marathon. The other maps are furnished, when occasion demands, with similar additions. This is certainly the best students' classical atlas that we have seen, when the moderato size and price are taken into consideration. How much less used one to get for three times the money a quarter of a century ago!
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