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est, and gives to each its due place. The 

 book contains chapters on the Island of 

 Cyprus ; the shores of Asia Minor ; the 

 Archipelago ; Smyrna ; Mitylene and Troy ; 

 Constantinople and the American missions 

 and schools ; and the affairs and prosjjccts 

 of Turkey and the new states, with histories 

 of the recent events tliat have led up to 

 independence or autonomy of the latter. 



Wonderful Escapes. From the French 

 of F. Bernard, with Original Chapters 

 added by Richard Whiting. New 

 York : Charles Scribner's Sons. Pp. 

 306, with full-page Illustrations. Price, 



This is a volume of the " Illustrated 

 Library of Wonders," of which the pub- 

 lishers are issuing a new and cheap edition. 

 It relates, each story being complete in 

 itself, a number of the most marvelous 

 escapes of persons from extreme danger, of 

 which history is full, beginning with the 

 story of Aristomenes the Messenian, 684 n. 

 c, as related by Pausanias, and closing with 

 the escapes of Louis Napoleon from Uam, 

 and James Stephens, the Fenian, from 

 Richmond Prison. In it we find the narra- 

 tive of the delivery of the twelve priests by 

 Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire. 



The Spartan and Theban Scpp-emaciks. 

 By Charles Sankey. Pp. 231, with 

 Maps. The Early Hanoverians. By 

 Edward E. Morris. Pp. 235, with 

 Maps and Plans. New York : Charles 

 Scribner's Sons. Price, $1 each. 



These volumes belong to the series of 

 " Epochs of History," a series the purpose 

 of which is to select and present in a sepa- 

 rate volume, complete in itself, a group of 

 events of such importance as to entitle it to 

 be regarded as an epoch. In the selection 

 of authors for the several volumes, regard 

 has been had to the special qualifications of 

 the writer for the portrayal of the particu- 

 lar period assigned to him. The former 

 volume embraces that period — while the 

 history of Greece was still substantially the 

 history of the world — when Athens had 

 failed to weld her discordant neighbor cities 

 into something like national unity, and the 

 experiment was about to be taken up by 

 the ruder states of Sparta and Thebes in 

 succession, to end in a common downfall 

 under the heels of the Macedonian con- 



queror. Greece had still great men — the sol- 

 diers of Sparta and Thebes, and Socrates — 

 but her time of usefulness was substan- 

 tially over. This volume shows the prog- 

 ress and the speed of the decline. 



The second volume is a logical continua- 

 tion of the same author's " Age of Anne," 

 and relates to a period which was lively in 

 British politics, and was not without brill- 

 iant deeds in the wars of other countries. 

 While the name of the epoch is taken 

 from English history, some of the subjects — 

 the Turkish wars, the War of the Polish 

 Succession, Anson's voyage, and many minor 

 matters — are not usually treated in our 

 school-histories. One of the most accept- 

 able features consists in the literary biog- 

 raphies, among the subjects of which are 

 Lcilinitz, Newton, the poets and novelists 

 of the period, Dr. Johnson, Rousseau, and 

 Voltaire. Biographies of the political char- 

 acters are also given, and the account of the 

 rising known as " the 'Forty-five " has been 

 made very full. 



Bulletins of the United States Geologi- 

 cal Survey. Nos. 7 to 14, constituting 

 Vol. II. Washington : Government Print- 

 ing Office. Pp. 830, with Plates. 



No. 7 is a catalogue of geological maps 

 of America, North and South, from 1752 to 

 1881, containing 924 titles arranged in geo- 

 graphical and chronological order, by Jules 

 Marcou and John Belknap Marcou ; No. 8 

 is a paper " On Secondary Enlargements of 

 Mineral Fragments in Certain Rocks," by R. 

 D. Irving and C. R. Van Ilise, in which 

 something like a crystalline growth of min- 

 erals is indicated ; No. 9 is " A Report of 

 Work done in the Washington Laboratory 

 during the Fiscal Year 1883, 1884," by F. W. 

 Clarke and T. M. Chatard ; No. 10 is " On the 

 Cambrian Faunas of North America," re- 

 lating particularly to the St. John forma- 

 tion. New Brunswick, and the Braintree 

 Argillites, by C. D. Walcott ; No. 11 is " On 

 the Quaternary and Recent Mollusea of the 

 Great Basin, with Descriptions of New 

 Forms," by R. Ellsworth Call and C. K. 

 Gilbert ; No. 12 is "a Crystallographic 

 Study of the Thinolite of Lake Lahontan," 

 by Edward S. Dana; No. 13 is a sketch of 

 the boimdaries of the L'nited States and of 

 the several States and Territories, with au 



