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"The Finding of Wineland," by Arthur Middleton Reeves, a sumptuous work of unusual excellence, is the result of the very latest researches by the most eminent Northern scholars in the study of the saga literature relating to this subject; while "The Pre-Columbian Discovery of America," by the Rev. Benjamin F. DeCosta, is practically a re-telling in English of the facts as presented by C. C. Rafn, the Danish antiquarian, over half a century ago. The first edition of DeCosta's book was published in 1868, and was considered a valuable treatise in its day. The new one has been somewhat enlarged, especially in the way of foot-notes, which purport to show the present state of the discussion. The prospectus issued by the publishers announced that this edition *THE FINDING OF WINELAND THE GOOD: The History of the Icelandic Discovery of America. Edited and translated from the earliest records, by Arthur Middleton Reeves. With phototype plates of the vellum MSS. of the Sagas. New York: Macmillan & Co. THE PRE-COLUMBIAN DISCOVERY OF AMERICA BY THE NORTHMEN. With translations from the Icelandic Sagas. By B. F. DeCosta. Second Edition. Albany: Joel Munsell's Sons. was prepared in Europe, and would give “the result of the studies of the last two decades, and exhibit the whole subject as it stands today in the historical world." How unwarranted this claim is, a cursory comparison with Mr. Reeves's book will make very evident. The fact alone that the names of Dr. Gudbrand Vigfusson of Oxford and Dr. Gustav Storm of Christiania are not even incidentally mentioned by DeCosta shows plainly that his book is far behind the times; for it is quite impossible to speak of recent studies in Old Norse literature without making reference to Dr. Vigfusson, and equally impossible to discuss the Vinland sagas, on the basis of modern scholarship, without allusion to the work of Dr. Storm. And yet, DeCosta's book is not to be set aside as entirely without value. He has not, and does not pretend to have, a knowledge of Old Norse, but he has been a diligent student of Rafn's "Antiquitates Americanæ," and is a zealous advocate of the Norse claims. In speaking of the stand taken by Mr. Justin Winsor, Mr. DeCosta makes some sober remarks on the historical value of the sagas, which are incomparably more telling against Mr. Winsor than are Prof. E. N. Horsford's effusions. It will be remembered that in 1885 a monument was erected in Boston in honor of Leif Erikson. Members of the Massachusetts Historical Society tried to discourage the project "on the ground that no satisfactory evidence existed to show that any spot in New England had been reached by the Northmen." Christopher Columbus did not land on the New England shores, nor even on the North American continent; but there would certainly be nothing inappropriate in erecting a monument to his honor in the city of Boston. The committee came to their conclusion because antiquarians have failed to find any relics of the Northmen in New England. Dr. Storm, after a critical examination of the saga narratives, is of the opinion that the Northmen were never in New England, and believes that Vinland was Nova Scotia but he arrives at these conclusions from a careful study of the sagas, not by casting discredit upon them, as is done in these words of the committee: "There is the same sort of reason for believing in Leif Erikson that there is for believing in Agamemnon, -they are both traditions accepted by the later writ |