An Epitome of History, Ancient, Medimval, and Modern. By Carl
Ploetz. Translated by W. H. Tillinghast, Harvard College. (Blackie and Son.)—This has already run through several editions in Germaq, and is now translated, and some part of the matter expanded, for the use of English and American students. To comment in detail on a work which professes to comprise the history of all nations, from 3000 B.C. to the close of 1882 A.D., in one volume is obviously impracticable. The aim of Professor Ploetz, as shown by his preface to the seventh German edition, is to provide a skeleton of facts and dates which a student, or especially a lecturer, may clothe and vitalise at leisure ; and the translator has added to the value of the work by re-writing in fuller detail the history of England, and especially of America. The index is full and carefully compiled, and the varieties of type employed in the text seem very convenient as aids to reference. The genealogical tables are intelligible, and the whole book will be found useful by the general student. It seems especially adapted for the use of the upper classes in schools.
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