Atlas Antiguics. By Emil Reich, D.J. (Macmillan and Co. 10s.
net.)—Dr. Reich says that in this work his "chief purpose is to project historical events graphically upon the territory in which they happened and by the configuration of which they were largely influenced." There are forty-eight maps in all, and they extend in point of time from the First Persian War down to the Civil Wars in the time of Julius Caesar, a period of about four centuries and a half (492-45 B.C.) The number is made up by maps of Athens, Rome, and the Roman Empire at its maxi- mum. The first may be taken as an example. It gives the two Persian Wars, and marks the operations of the contending forces in lines of different colours, the text supplying names of Generals in command, &c. It would have tended to more clearness if two maps had been given, one for each war. Considering that a hundred people reed this portion of history for one who roads, say, about the doings of Polysperchon, one of the less needful maps might have been economised. Some of Dr. Reich's Latin strikes us as doubtful. A gesta might have been profitably added after "Bela Civilia tempore Caesaris." Tempers Traiani would have served for the doubtful " Imperium Romanum maxim extensum" (spelt maximae) in the map., though not in the index. "Ntuneris inscripti significant mums possessionis " is a curious way of saying that the date on the boundary-line indicates the time when it was settled.—With this we may mention the Historical Atlas, with Chronological Notes by E. A. Benians, MA., and T. H. Knight, M.A. (G. Gill and Sons, 8d.) It deals with English history, beginning with a map of Roman Britain, and ending with one of the Transvaal and Orange River Colony.
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