REVIEW.

Evening Star, Issue 3254, 25 July 1873, Page 3

REVIEW.

The Student's Atlas, containing thirty-six Maps and Consulting Index. William Collins, Sons, and Co., London, Glasgow, and Edinburgh; W. Hay, Princes street, Dunedin. Such are the title, the publishers, and bookseller, of a very neatly-bound atlas, laid on our table yesterday. The continual additions to geographical knowledge render corresponding alterations necessary in modern maps. Formerly the limite 1 demands for geographical information caused an atlas to be so expensive, as to place it only within the means of the wealthy to obtain one. Modern art.has, however, been equal to the necessities of the day ; and Messrs Collins have added their Student’s Atlas to the many admirable educational works published by them. It is printed on fine strong paper ; the maps arc beautifully drawn and colored, and the typography is so clear, that the smallest lettering is easily read. As the issue bears date 1872, the latest information capable of publication is necessarily included. This is evident by comparing tho maps of Australia and Kew Zealand with those that were inserted in the earlier school atlases. The last five maps are historical, and consequently useful to classical students. They are Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, Britain under the Saxons, a historical map of the British Islands, and a similar one of France. By an ingenious use of initial letters, the index shows not only latitudes and longitudes, but the object named, whether cape, island, town, city, or other distinctive character, A third column refers to the map on which it is to be found. The heights of remarkable mountains are recorded on tbe map. The usual very useful comparative view of the principal mountains of tho world appears at the f<>ot of the map of the Western and Eastern Hemispheres, and, like the comparative lengths of rivers, they are classifiedaccording to the division of the globe in Ifgfc . situated. This useful work Jffiave very valuable, not only in every family, but whi-re they are of obtaining accurate knowledge. ' : T; -*.