27 APRIL 1912, Page 40

Prehistoric Thessaly. By A. J. B. Waco, M.A., and M.

S. Thomp- son, RI. (Cambridge University Press. 18s.)—The authors describe their book as "An Account of Recent Excavations and Explorations in North-Eastern Greece from Lake Copals to the Borders of Macedonia." To the export this will be enough ; we should advise the general reader to begin with chapters xii.-xv. Those will bring him into touch with the Greece which he knows. He will also find in xiv. an interesting discussion of the early

civilizations of Routh-Eastern Europe. The point is, Was there a connexion between the civilization of the /Egoan basin and that of the Danube Valley ? Our authors would answer this question with a negative. We might almost argue that no civilization spreads except by sea or river transport.