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 382 Reviews of Books State Aid to Internal Improvements." The encroachment of national politics into state affairs, especialh' under Jackson's influence, is noted as a fact. But the similar experience of other states is not adverted to, nor is its inevitableness discussed, nor the dwarfing effect upon state politics, nor the consolidating effect, through the aggrandizement of national at the expense of state interests ; all of them legitimate questions, and per- tinent, as showing the practical effect of our peculiar double system upon the relative spheres and reciprocal relations of the state and the national governments. Most of the episodes of Tennessee history are not peculiar to her alone. They have their local details and coloring. They may have been more intense in Tennessee than in other states, or less so. But they were mere parts of broad movements, and it would have added greatly to the value of this book for every purpose if more attention had been paid to the fact. The second edition, it is understood, will be printed from revised plates. Frederick W. Moore. Pausanias and other Greek Sketches, by J. G. Frazer. (Macmillan, pp. X, 419.) This attractive little volume contains first — as Mr. Frazer states in his preface — a reprint of that chapter upon Pausanias which served as an introduction to his voluminous and scholarly commentary upon that author. This is published without change, save the omission of the numerous footnotes which accompany the commentary. The essay upon Pericles is reprinted in the same way from the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The other sketches are extracts, in whole or in part, from the com- mentary. The greater part of these are descriptions of those places men- tioned by Pausanias, and of the routes over which he journeyed. In a few instances accounts are given of places not visited by the ancient traveller, but well worth the attention of those who would follow in his footsteps. Some of the sketches are almost entirely rewritten, — that on the Lernaean Marsh, p. 266, and that on the road to Olympia, p. 287 ; others are published without change. As parts of Mr. Frazer's com- mentary upon the travels of Pausanias these descriptions add a needed touch of local color and of present interest to his account of the antiquar- ian and religious side of Greek life. Separately printed they will prove a welcome addition to the sources of information at the disposition of the modern traveller in Greece, while the admirable literary quality of the book will commend it to a larger audience. Rome: Its Rise and Fall. A Text-book for High Schools and Col- leges, by P. V. N. Myers, L.H.D. (Boston, Ginn, pp. xii, 554). This new history of Rome— an expansion of a smaller work by the same author — has all of Mr. Myers's characteristic merits. The style is simple, lively, and on the whole, clear ; the book contains abundance of anecdote and of other illustrative matter. The author aims, too, to show the signifi- cance of events, and introduces many instructive analogies from modern