The Nation 1909-01-21: Vol 88 Iss 2273

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r . UM WAN 2 2 1908 ‘The Natio VOL. LXXXVIII—NO. 2273. THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1909. PRICE TEN IMPORTANT NEW BOOKS OF CLASSICAL INTEREST The Acropolis of Athens By Martin L. D’Ooge Professor of the Greek Language and Literature in the University of Michigan. Cloth, 8vo, fully illustrated, library gilt, $4.00 net; by mail, $4.28 The results of Professor D’Ooge’s lifelong study, and of his repeated visits to Athens where he was Director of the American School of Classical Studies during the important excavations of the middle eighties. It is a companion volume to Life in the Homeric Age By Thomas D. Seymour Late Professor of Greek Language and Literature in Yale University. Decorated cloth, library gilt 8vo, fully illustrated, $4.00 net; by mail, $4.28 It is the only work which carefully and scientifically extracts from Homer’s language the earliest account extant of the culture from which our own is a true lineal descendant. The first edition was exhausted within five months of its 1ssue. By Arthur L. Frothingham, Ph.D. The Monuments of Christian Rome from Constantine to the Renaissance Illustrated, $2.25 net; by mail, $2.44 The author was for a time Associate Director of the American School at Rome, and is now Professor of Archeology and Ancient History at Princeton University. In effect this work traces the development of art, in its broadest sense, in Rome during the thousand years following the triumph of Christianity. By J. B. Bury, Litt.D., LL.D. The Ancient Greek Historians Harvard Lectures. Ready this week. Cloth, 8vo, library gilt, $2.25 net; by mail, $2.39. The book amounts to a historical survey of the way in which the Greeks gradually evolved history, dis- engaging it from the earlier myths; it shows, too, the way in which the chief events in Greek history, and the general intellectual movements of successive ages, reacted on Greek historiography; it outlines the way in which Roman historians followed the line of the Greek; and, finally, discusses the views of the Ancients concerning the use of history. Herculaneum Past, Present and Future By CHARLES WALDSTEIN, Litt.D., Ph.D., Slade Professor of Fine Arts in the University of Cam- bridge, and Leonard Shoobridge, M.A., Balliol College, Oxford. With colored frontispiece, numerous photogravure plates and other illustrations. Decorated Cloth, $5 net. (carriage extra). | NOTABLE WORKS IN PREPARATION FOR EARLY ISSUE | By Professor GEORGE W. BOTSFORD, By W. W. FOWLER, author of “Roman Festivals of Columbia University. the Period of the Republic,” etc. The Roman Assemblies am Social Life in Rome A substantial volume, treating its special subject in By the Author of “The City-State of the Greeks and the scientific thorough way in which Professors Sey- mour and D’Ooge treated distinctive periods in the life of Greece. the Romans,” who is also the delightful personality back of “Summer Studies of Birds and Books.” — THE MACMILLAN COMPANY “s.rvo0"" by