It is twenty months since the first rumours of the discovery of the now famous πολıτεĺα τν 'AΘηναĺΩν went round the learned world, and a year and a half has elapsed since the book itself appeared to vex the souls of those engaged in the teaching of ancient history, and to force them to recast paragraph after paragraph of the books or lectures which had long served them well, but whose hypotheses were, alas ! more often upset than confirmed by the statements of the new authority.