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NEW BOOIxs.

THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUs. A new English
yersiep, edited with coPious Notes aud Append :
iees, Illustrating s the History and Geography 3 OF
t9tmation and embodyipg the Chief Results,
HistGrieH ard 70 Ethnosraplhieal which hsvs been
glyphie Discovery. By GEoRoE RAwLINsoN, A.
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q. New York: d. Appleton Oo.i Cincinnati;
Rickey, Mallory 90.
The present volume completes the series Of Sir
George Rawlinson's edition of the works Of the
Father Of History-probably the most learnedly and
ably annotated book of the present age; which has
been issued by the Messrs. Appletons, In a style
worthy Of the magnitude Of the labor and its sue
cess. The works of Herodotus still charm the
reader Of history by the simple f,ithfulness with
which their author recorded the facts which fell un-
der his own observation, and the lover Of the ro-
mantle by the multiplicity of things incredible,
which he sat down upon what he doubtless believed
TO be the true relations of others The researches OF
the editors have done much TO explain many obscure
passages, and to show the truth Of many things
which had before been doubted while the history
ia guide and commentary upon things which the
enterprise of modern discoveries arc bringing to
light from the ruins Of fallen Eastern Empires The
present volume contains the history from the sew
enth to the ninth books inclusive together with es-
says and explanations Of subjects connected there
illustrations, and an index.
ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF THE ANIMAL
RlSSDQn RdrSS By e. New york
Ohio at Anderson, Gates Wrghts, Cincinnati.
complete natural history, maintaining scien-
tic classification but divested Of the technicaliies
which discourage the unlearned reader, satisfying
the scientific naturalist, on one hand, by system
attic arrangement and the general reader the
other by abundant explanations Of scientific TERMS
and by details descriptions incidents and anecdotes
and ali comprised within the compass of volumes,
suitable for any household library, is certainly de-
sideratum. This is the work which the author, the
popular Peter Farley, has undertaken, and has done
in Two volumes of $50 pages each.
The magnitude Of the work may bo estimated from
the expansiveness of the scientific works in which
this science has hitherto been almost confined OF
Professor Agassiz's American work which has been
extensively circulated by subscription two volumes
quarto are devoted to American Tortoises. The
Oology of the birds Of North America, about to bo
published by the Smithsonian Institute, will make
duarto volume Of 900 pages. So extensive is this
science, that authors usually devote themselves to
single branches Gray's classification of birds,
published in London in 1919, comprises three vol
umes quarto, and costs $50. There are mora than
1900 volumes on natural history in Europe and the
extent Of the science necessarily confined it to the
few learned and the books chiefly to the great gov
ernment libraries. This is the work which Good.
rich has undertaken to reduce to popular form, sc
as TO bring this attractive knowledge within reach
of every family collection of books.
We have the authority of Professor Agassiz fol
saying that previous to this work 'there has not
been published in the United States single text.
book embracing the whole animal kingdom" No
one in the English language, has attempted to pre-.
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