“Mr. Thompson, as principal librarian of the British Museum, has of course had very exceptional advantages for preparing his book.... Probably all teachers of the classics, as well as specialists in palæography, will find something of value in this systematic treatise upon a rather unusual and difficult study.”—_Review of Reviews._ “A well-arranged manual from the hands of a competent authority.... Of the nineteen chapters contained in the volume, seven deal with preliminary topics, as the history of the Greek and the Latin alphabets, writing materials, the forms of books, punctuation, measurement of lines, shorthand, abbreviations, and contractions; five are devoted to Greek palæography, seven to Latin.”—_The Critic._ “Covering as this volume does such a vast period of time, from the beginning of the alphabet and the ways of writing down to the seventeenth century, the wonder is how, within three hundred and thirty-three pages, so much that is of practical usefulness has been brought together.”—_New York Times._ _MAN AND THE GLACIAL PERIOD._ By G. FREDERICK WRIGHT, D.D., LL.D., author of “The Ice Age in North America,” “Logic of Christian Evidences,” etc. With numerous Illustrations. 12mo. Cloth, $1.75. “The author is himself an independent student and thinker whose competence and authority are undisputed.”—_New York Sun._ “It may be described in a word as the best summary of scientific conclusions concerning the question of man’s antiquity as affected by his known relations to geological time.”—_Philadelphia Press._ “The earlier chapters describing glacial action, and the traces of it in North America—especially the defining of its limits, such as the terminal moraine of the great movement itself—are of great interest and value. The maps and diagrams are of much assistance in enabling the reader to grasp the vast extent of the movement.”—_London Spectator._ New York: D. APPLETON & CO., 1, 3, & 5 Bond Street. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES 1. P. 70, changed “japonicus” to “M. japonicus”. 2. P. 150, changed “fibres” to “fishes”. .Moved advertising between half-title & Frontispiece to between the index and the other advertising. 3. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling. 4. Archaic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings retained as printed. 5. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_. 6. Enclosed bold font in =equals=.