Book Reviews

HISTORY OP ANCIENT PEOPLES. By Willis Boughton. A. M., Professor ofiSuelish Literature, Ohio University. G. Jb. Putuain's Sous, N. Y. Even ancient history is being changed and bas to be rewritten. Kecent discoveries of buried cities, old hieroglyphics, niusty records and forgotten libraries throw uew light on the dim past, bringing out details and filling up vacant places. The past twenty years have been busy ones for the archeologist, giving tnany corroborations of biblical story and verifying old testament readings. To bring these up to date and to get such Btories into oue volume, Professor Boughton has performed valuable ser! vice in i'ondeusing the deeds of historie and prehistorie peoples. It is a most difficult thing for a college professor to condense and elimínate, for he becomes so lilled with all things pertainiug to bis subject that everything I seems too important to omit. But in i this case Prof. Boughton bas shown the good effects of his earlier newspaper training in Ann Arbor, on the University Chronicle and The Coueiek, and has risen above the great mass of material gathered in the extensive redding and research he must have made preparatory to writing this work. lie has made a history to compare with the remarkable condensed history of Eugland by Green. The author gives the story of each nation by itseli from its beginning to its ending, Bhowing the mixing, extinction or absorption oï one after auotiier. He es Uie races of men into the Black, the Yellow and the White, in the probable order of their appearance on the earth. fie studies tlie culture-vitality of each, showing how one was succeeded by the other in prominence and power. One of the interesting chapters on the Yellow race tells of the lucas, the Aztecs and the American Indians. To illustrate the style of the writer we quote the last paragraph of the chapter : "Thus the Americana lived when the conquering race carne. The story of the nations is only a narration of conquest after conquest. Ordinarially, however, the conqueror and the subdued have dwelt together until they are fused into one people. Kot so with the American race. Though conquered, they have not bent the knee to the oppressor. The have chosen rather to suffer annihilation. Their numbers are lesseniug every year. Soon the race vrill be known only by the names of their héroes and patriots, 'their Brandts, their Tecumpsehs, their Logans, and their XcUUilipöCUi, Lililí JjUaUO, tlAAVA uiLii 'ontiacs. Even the deeds of these will )e recorded by their eneinies and their conquerors. These peopie then will orni only one stratuin in ihe racial hisory of the Western World." lt is a tale of absorbing interest 10 ■ead of the early days of the Chinese, iittites, the Libyans, the Egyptians, he Syrians, the Phoeniciaus, the Hejrews the Mesopotainiaus, and the Arabians. lt is nut oniy admirably adapted to use in the class room buttothe reading eircle as well. Both author aud publisiier have addeu a valuable book in this Ilistury of Ancient Peoples. Eoud, ilead and Co., Uhe well knowa pufolteliers, Jiave just goictea out o thii-d editiwii of Edmand Uosse's SeTeiuteemth. Centuc-y Stedies. lt ís j naiv over iourfceen years siince Tlie ou'tüi'Oi", t.ben au amtoutBous young BrjgLiiS'liTnan, gave hife Wrk vo tlie líberary wwld. In tihüs tively slïoi-t tima tlie man, wfaoee name was uien Jusb b,.'.g,un:'iig ïjj be íamüiUr at tta emd ui datnty lyries and orittaal essays, lnas gained an enviable reput,at,iO'n, öspecially on that pei'iod eoinsidered by stiudents the 'Ono-st p'Uzziing ia all lKeratuire, ttue sevemteemtili eentary, is hfe wotrd now telid as aubko:lty. No feo scliolars alone, Iwywierfier, do Mis wri'ttog aj)peal, but tu,ei"e ils a charnn in lite style and in lu's "magnetie veheniten;e,' as someoDie hias called tt, wWett atrracts tlie average i'eader as nviell. Wc ar gl-ad to eee iMsub iin tlue revi ions and c-iiciímd wliichiMr. üossa bas to ïniake, be does nol uiideiTate, U'O" wbti to ohiamge that Kpirit of ti aiikneifc and onulimsiüasm' wihicli "breattoes t,h,roug'h ev-ery page of the ■(rook. Raitlhier, lne says in vh last pnefaoe. tihat he diombts il he could ■write so well noAv ae hie dikl tlben undier tibe spi&U, whÈan ome can enjoy lOínly once in a liifetime, of youttot'ul fiithu-siasm. The boo'k eonaists of l)iog-napuibal studies o ton different poets, tvüio, tbough in m:ny ways delihtinl are still ooanparatiTely var kilo-wal ttowug'b tlie fu'ult oí havjiig liKx'd oontemp'or'ii'ry WiifiÏL.aaeli men as Shakespeare amd Drydiao. 'XSie liiat ivihfleh M i to jwesrmt coeslsts oí Thsomas Lodge, Joiin Webster, Samuel Konviand-, Captaún IHm-r, l;ob;-:-t Herr&k, IlMiard fhinv, Abraluam C irüne Fowter, tliie "mat - ," h:ü' George Etüieirecige and Tb i u";iy. I VVS WÖP6 'i ' - ■ ■ ftS i itofth . -. i!iü e.siiiy on EMiL'iX"Ju:e : tihongh, :u real9ty oue eaa have Imt ïtttie pneíerenee as eatíh a in the brtght and wflion a. miau v. nul ■oii'lj' kni;nv go maeh aboui ihem, iiut also kwes titem feo well. Tlic tcO'k fe sold at $1.50. Slome interes tinig facts regarding tlie early ue i)f aloaliolic beverages aTe gjlver,. by D:-. C. E. Pellew in Appletion's P'Oipular Seileince MouLhly Jor Jume. Th,e earlilesfc lifet.oric.al records giv details aboufc tiho use aad aliase of thfe pc-temfc üqutd, and make it pfain tiluat this anei'ents had) their "liquor qu-estiotn" as well as ourselves.