70 Richard Cull, Esq., on the 



We know that nearly the whole of that part of the Ger- 

 mania of Tacitus east of the Elbe, as well as certain parts 

 west of the Elbe, were, at the beginning of the proper his- 

 torical period, i.e., in the reign of Charlemagne not Germanic 

 but Slavonic. Did Tacitus confound Slavonians with Ger- 

 mans % Did the German population of Tacitus entirely aban- 

 don that tract of country, and a Slavonian population take 

 its place % These are questions which Dr Latham has treated 

 in detail with great ability. The country east of the Elbe 

 was only dimly sketched by Tacitus. The period when it 

 became known in detail, and from personal knowledge, is 

 the reign of Charlemagne. Accurate geographical knowledge 

 of this region was scarcely possible to Tacitus. 



It is not enough, as Dr Latham remarks, to know how a 

 modern writer classifies the varieties of man. The reader of 

 Tacitus must also know the view that the ancients took of 

 those varieties. The ancients had clear notions of the dif- 

 ferences between the group to which they themselves be- 

 longed, i.e., the Classical group, and the groups to which the 

 so-called (3ao(3ugoi belonged. This notion, clear as it was, was 

 limited to one direction. It comprehended only the points 

 of difference. Modern science has extended the notion to 

 comprehend points of resemblance also. The resemblances 

 which brought the Slavonians and Goths into the same group 

 with the Classical stock — the great group called Indo-Euro- 

 pean, were utterly unknown to the ancients. 



" The Unity of the Human races proved to be the Doctrine 

 of Scripture, Reason, and Science. By Thomas Smyth, 

 D.D." 



This work, which appeared in Edinburgh late last autumn, 

 is a reprint, revised and much enlarged by the author, of the 

 American edition. The American edition grew out of three 

 discourses, and various articles by the same author, which 

 appeared in several Theological Journals in the United 

 States ; and which were written to controvert the position of 

 Professor Agassiz, that the origin of the human race is mul- 

 tiform. Professor Agassiz is well known as a profound na- 

 turalist, whose opinions are entitled to much respect. As a 

 naturalist, the Professor declares there is no common or se- 



