Terrestrial and Celestial Globes. By Edward Luther Steven- son. (H.
Milford, for the Hispanic Society of America. 2 vols. 508. net.)—Dr. Stevenson is evidently an enthusiastic student of globes and has brought together, in these substantial and well-illustrated volumes, a vast amount of information. He touches lightly on the Greek and Arabian geographers, who had celestial globes, and begins in earnest with the era of discovery, when Europe at last accepted Aristotle's theory that the earth was a sphere and geographers therefore began to use terrestrial globes. The oldest known terrestrial globe is that made by Martin Behaim of Nuremburg in 1492. Dr. Stevenson proceeds to describe in detail the globes made in successive generatiun4
from that time to the close of the eighteenth century, concluding with a technical account of the construction. of globes. It is a pity, as he says, that the use of the globes is no longer general in our schools.
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