OF ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN HISTORY. By CARL PLOETZ. TRANSLATED, WITH EXTENSIVE ADDITIONS, BY WM. H. TILLINGHAST, With very full Index. Crown 8vo, 630 pp., $3.00. An admirably concise and accurate general history, embracing the salient features in the records of all nations and peoples of which any account has come down to us. It is excellently adapted for use in colleges, seminaries, academies, and schools, as well as for private libraries. The Nation (N. Y.). "Dr. Ploetz's book is first a dictionary of dates, so arranged by the aid of different types as to throw out into prominence the more important ones, and to show the subordination of the rest to them. But it is also a very successful effort to suggest more than the date and event. It aims to group facts about races and territories so as to show their essential connection. It traces by a word and hint here and there the most important lines of intellectual and religious development. In short, it tries to answer just the leading questions which an intelligent pupil would be sure to ask at the outset of his studies. Excellent as the original is, we have no hesitation in saying that the translation is a great improvement upon it. It contains considerably over a third more matter, mainly in the history of England and America, which were notably deficient in the original. China, Japan and India also have been granted a space commensurate with their importance as factors in modern civilization. These are the absolute additions. Other portions are marked by the translator as having been considerably enlarged or changed. The result is a really beautiful piece of workmanship,-a work destined, we believe, to become indispensable to every teacher of history." Boston Advertiser. "Mr. Tillinghast's Ploetz is an epitome of universal history exceeding the value of the original, and the best outline of which the teachers of general history can possibly make use in our colleges and secondary schools. Besides that, the Epitome is a most excellent reference-book or the facts and dates of history. entitled to the immediate attention of all persons who teach or study universal history. They cannot find a better manual." The Churchman (N. Y.). Is "It takes up successively ancient, medieval and modern history, giving not only a succinct, connected narrative of its chief events, but, in the margin, the time of their occurrence; so that it is a history and a dictionary of dates in one. By a copious index, and an arrangement of type, it is made easy of reference to find any specific fact or date, and it thus becomes serviceable to the general reader as well as to the student. It takes a very wide range, and in this compact volume an incredible amount of information is condensed." Magazine of American History. "The distinguishing feature of this work is the arrangement whereby a brief connected narrative is accompanied by a clear, well graduated chronology, which emphasizes the sequence of events without breaking up the story or fatiguing the mind. It is intended for the use of upper classes in the higher educational institutions, as a guide or handbook in the historical class-room. It is adapted also for private use, and facilitates rapid acquisition of information concerning historical matters which has for the moment escaped the memory. Especial care seems to have been devoted to the index, which is very full, and thus the book may serve the purpose of an historical dictionary as well as a chronology." For sale by all Booksellers. Sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price by the Publishers, 11 East 17th Street, New York. BOOKS. 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