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Dr. Fligier and by Baron Charles von Czcernig, a high functionary 
of the Austrian government, who in a recent octavo volume of 
311 pages has published his researches upon Upper Italian nations 
of ancient, medizval and modern times’ The people of the 
Euganeans, whose name is preserved in the territorial names of 
Valsugana (Vallis Euganea) and Palugana, the author considers 
spoke an Aryan or a non-Aryan language, he prefers to await. 
developments than to give a definite opinion, but considers the 
Reti as a people originally identical with the Etruskans. They 
remained in the Alpine mountains, while the latter moved south 
into the plains of the Po river and settled there after subjugating 
the aboriginal people called Umbri. The Venetians, or Henetoi, 
a comparatively pure-blooded race, seem to have been Thracians,' 
and the ancient authors almost unanimously proclaim their 
descent from Paphlagonia. The Celtic origin of some local names 
is distinctly traceable, on the western part of the Lombardic 
plain especially (p. 219). The sketchy biographies given of 
medieval princes in Lombardy are very spicy bits of reading, 
and give us very graphic ideas of the arbitrary and cruel des- 
potism in those dark ages. A short apergu of the country’s con- 
dition during the Napoleonic and recent period, mainly based on 
statistics, concludes the volume.— A. S. Gatschet. ` 
GEOGRAPHICAL Names IN Mexico.—Antonio Penafeil, super- 
intendent of the department of statistics in the Mexican Republic, 
has published in Mexico an alphabetical catalogue of the places 
in Mexico whose names are related to the Nahuatl language. In 
the catalogue of municipalities are many names so mutilated in 
orthography that it is difficult{to recognize their origin and signifi- 
cation. Signor Penafeil has undertaken to reconstruct this 
nomenclature, forming an alphabetic index of American names 
of places existing in the latest part of the empire of Montezuma 
II, drawing his information from historic documents and from the 
hieroglyphic writings of the Nahuas, which are rightly considered 
to be the purest fountain of the ancient history of the Mexicans, 
. Each word in this quarto volume of 220 pages is accompanied 
with the hieroglyphic symbol of the place, and with its equivalent 
in old and in modern Mexico. 
Tue Kansas City Review.—This standard periodical, whose 
death was prematurely announced in the NATURALIST, has put on 
a new dress and appeared in its ninth volume as number one of a 
new series. The editorial chiefs will r. Theo. S. Case and 
Mr. Warren Watson. It is with sincere pleasure that we recall 
our obituary and give notice of the reorganization of the Review, 
with a shorter title and a brighter face. 
