(Longmans.)—Here are more than a hundred maps, illustrating Euro- pean
history (the relations of European kingdoms to other countries) from the middle of the fourth century A.D. For all this number, the
volume is a quarto of the smallest size, with about 130 pages, very much less in bulk than the ordinary atlas. The idea is, of course,
one familiar to teachers ; but we never saw it so thoroughly and completely carried out, the size and cost of the book being considered. Indeed, there are not a few things in it which have not been brought together in the most expensive books. We note some of the most novel and interesting,—" A Map of Revolutionary Paris," showing the position of the Conciergerie, the Chamber of the Constituent Assembly, the head-quarters of the Committee of Public Safety, and other famous localities of the revolutionary time ; five maps showing the growth of British India ; one showing the world as it was possessed by European Powers in 1770, &o.
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