Athens and ifs Monuments. By Charles Heald Weller. (Macmillan and
Co. 17s. net.)—Days in Attica. By Mrs. R. C. Bosanquet. (Methuen and Co. Is. 6d. net.)—The somewhat alarming announcement that Athens is to be re- modelled by the latest science of town-planning would give 'a timely interest to these two books, if they were in need of adventitious advertisement. Professor Weller, of the Univer- sity of Iowa, aims at providing "a brief and nntechnical account of the topography and monuments of ancient Athens for the general reader and the traveller, as well as an intro- duction to the subject for the student of archaeology and history:" It is the beet book of its kind in English since Professor Gardner's Ancient Athens, and should find a wide public in these days. Mrs. Bosanquet's book is less formal, though hardly less informing; it is described as "a friendly guide for the traveller who goes to Athens without much preliminary knowledge of Greece and its history," and in a pocket edition it would serve this purpose admirably.-- Aegean Days. By J. Irving Manatt. (John Murray. 12s. net.)—Professor Manatt was American Consul at Athens from 1889 to 1893. In the first part of this pleasant book he describes a summer in the Cyelades—chiefly in Andros; in the second part he recalls impressions of other Aegean trips. to' Lesbos, Chios, Ithaca, dm. He is steeped in Greek memories, and his scholarly divagations make delightful reading.
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