17 DECEMBER 1887, Page 40

New Historical Atlas and General History. By Robert H. Labberton.

(Macmillan.)—" It is an ill wind that blows no one good," and the public of students has reason to be obliged to the fire which destroyed the plates of Mr. Iabberton's former atlas, and set him on the task of constructing a new one. The plates are seventy-one in number, and they illustrate what it is not too much to call uni- versal history. The earliest gives "Babylonia before the Semitic, Conquest," "Chaldean Aecendency," and "The Great Pyramids" (it should be explained that the plates frequently contain more than one map), and the latest supplies two maps illustrative of the American Civil War. An explanatory text accompanies the maps. Altogether, it would not be easy to find a volume into which no much information is compressed.