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 346 Rcviczvs of Books (or Javonic) invaders, though Greek, were very few. The evanescent nature of such speculation appears from the fact that before his book is through the press, he declares that neither the name nor the nation of Javones (lonians) is Greek ! But anything may be expected of a writer who accepts as history the evident fiction that the Cyprian Salamis was settled from the Salamis off the Attic coast. The fact is that so far as these early chapters indicate, Mr. Bury has not advanced beyond the childish methods of the ancient Greeks ; he has not taken his first lesson in sound historical criticism. As a result of this lack of training, his chapters on the prehistoric age are a series of groundless or untenable hypotheses. His treatment of constitutional history is equally faulty ; we con- stantly happen upon statements which we are compelled to doubt or deny. The village was not, as he asserts, a genos (gens); the gens was not a primitive institution, and is not mentioned by Homer. There is no evidence that the //;j7c ever existed as an independent kingdom, or that the common people were ever excluded from the phratries, or that Solon established a "Council of Four Hundred and One." And it is not probable that this statesman provided for filling offices by a " mixed method of election and lot." It is difficult for the reader to under- stand, too, how an artificial tribal system introduced from Miletus could at the same time be " based on birth." Much else might be offered to show how confused is Mr. Bury's mind on various topics which are clearly and accurately treated in other books. Considerable stretches of his work, however, show contact with fresh German scholarship. The admirer of Busolt will find much in this new history to remind him of his old friend. Undoubtedly it is a merit in Mr. Bury to have depended on so good an authority ; but he could have done his countrymen a bet- ter service by translating Busolt or Beloch into English ; for these his- torians represent something substantial, and their works, therefore, have a lasting value. G. V. B. A History of Greece. By Evelyn Abbott, M.A., LL.D., Jowett Lecturer in Greek History at Balliol College. Part III. From the Thirty Years' Peace to the Fall of the Thirty at Athens, 445-403 B. C. (London ; Longmans. New York : Putnams, 1900. Pp. viii, 561.) Part I. of this history, which appeared in 1888, extends to the Ionian Revolt; Part II., published four years afterward, reaches the Treaty of 445 B. C. ; and the present volume not only continues the narrative to the fall of the Thirty at Athens, 403 B. C, but also includes a chapter on the literature, art, religion, and society of the Greeks in the fifth century. Though the first five chapters have been taken with some modifications from Mr. Abbott's well known work on Pericles, the remainder of the book is entirely new.