loyalists were swept into its current. The picture of these stirring events, with their entails of sacrifice and sufferings, is given in a good degree of fullness, and with minute exactness, in Mr. Dawson's pages.

The history here given redeems the promise of the title only so far as the beginnings and the inauguration of the revolutionary struggle are concerned, for it ends with the battle of White Plains, in October, 1776. It is well, however, that in such a monograph fullness in respect to the subjects discussed should be preferred to mere comprehensiveness of observations. Such works, while they have a special local interest, are valuable contributions to the general history of the country, and they are beyond all account valuable to the real student of history, who looks beneath the surface of things to discover their secret causes and the philosophy of their action. All such, therefore, owe to Mr. Dawson a hearty vote of thanks.

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The People's Atlas of the World, and Geographical and Statistical Hand-Book. tronomical, Geographical. Historical, Political, Chronological, Commercial, Statistical, Agricultural, and Descriptive. Furnishing the latest and most instructive Maps, Charts, and Diagrams, and the most comprehensive, practical, and helpful Information. Edited and Compiled by W. H. DE PUY, D.D., LL.D., Editor of The People's Cyclopedia, etc., etc. 4to, pp. 582. New York: Phillips

& Hunt.

The very full and accurately descriptive title given above of this noble work presents a fair inventory of its contents; but only a thorough examination of parts can enable one to properly appreciate its abundant and wisely selected matter. Its name, "Atlas," indicates its leading feature, its maps, which are many and well executed. The Astronomical section is good for its extent, which is necessarily very brief-twenty-five pages. Then follows, in a rapid sketch, an outline of Historical Geography, and next the changes made in the world's map by the rise and fall of governments and dynasties. The outline of Physical Geography is a lucid presentation of that important department of science. The department of Statistics contains very comprehensive summaries of the peoples of the whole world, their industries and productions and wealth; and the table giving the dates of the great historical events in the world's progress is itself a miniature universal history. There are maps of all the chief divisions of the earth, and special maps of the principal countries and of each of the States of the Union, with colored designation for counties, and also plans and diagrams of important localities.