HERREN'S MANUAL OF ANCIENT GEOGRAPHY.
By the publication of this valuable compilation from the work of HEEREN on Ancient Geography, Mr. TALBOYS has rendered con- siderable service both to the schoolboy and the more advanced student. Here, in a small volume of some 80 pages, is the result of many years' inquiry and consideration by one of the most profound scholars of the age,—teerning with exact information in every line. With this manual and a map of the ancient world before him, any person in a very short time may acquire a dis- tinct idea of its natural and arbitrary divisions; a knowledge he will be less likely to lose, from the manner in which the grand natural boundaries are imprinted upon his memory by the writer. In executing his task, the author did not design to enter into the minutiae of his subject, nor attempt to fix the exact position of single places : his object is to give " a continuous geographical description of the countries which were the theatres of the prin- cipal events in ancient history." This he has accomplished, and a good deal more ; for, whilst describing the nature and pro- ductions of the country, and the character of its people, he hints at the probable or unfolds the actual causes which have contri- buted to advance or retard their civilization, to form their social condition, and thus to effect the nature of their institutions and government.
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