Book Reviews.

Professor Albert B. Hart's book entitled "Formation of the Union, 1750.1829" makes the second volume of the Epochs of American History which he is editing himself. The volume aims to follow the principle "of the study of causes rather than of events, the development of the American nation out of scattered and inharmonious colonies." So great a development as this naturally is can be treated of course only in its elements in a volume as small as this, but Professor Hart has treated the subject in an interesting as well as an instructive manner. The various subjects of each chapter are printed in the margin at the beginning of their paragraph so that it is easy to find at a glance any special topic. Each chapter moreover, is prefixed by a large number of references carefully selected and arranged. There are five good maps showing the condition of the country from the year 1750 to 1829. Professor Hart has arranged the chief events of this period in a concise and systematic form but at the same time interesting. The volume will be no less useful as a general reference book than as a text book.

[Formation of the Union, 1750-1829; by Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph. D.; pub. by Longmans, Green, & Co., 1892.]