[429] Ultima teoria sobre la Atlantida. A paper read before the Geographical Society at Lisbon. I have seen only the epitome in Bolletino della Società Geografica Italiana, xvi. (1879), p. 693. Apparently the paper was published in 1881, in the proceedings of the fourth congress of Americanists at Madrid.
[430] Winchell, Preadamites, or a demonstration of the existence of man before Adam, etc. (Chicago, 1880), pp. 378 and fol.
[431] Ignatius Donnelly, Atlantis: the Antediluvian World (N. Y., 1882).
[432] His work is much more than a defence of Plato. He attempts to show that Atlantis was the terrestrial paradise, the cradle of the world’s civilization. I suppose it was his book which inspired Mrs. J. Gregory Smith to write Atla: a Story of the Lost Island (New York, 1886).
Donnelly’s book was favorably reviewed by Prof. Winchell (“Ancient Myth and Modern Fact,” Dial, Chicago, April, 1882, ii. 284), who declared that there was no longer serious doubt that the story was founded on fact. His theory was enthusiastically adopted by Mrs. A. A. Knight in Education (v. 317), and somewhat more soberly by Rev. J. P. McLean in the Universalist Quarterly (Oct., 1882, xxxix. 436, “The Continent of Atlantis”). I have not seen an article in Kansas Review by Mrs. H. M. Holden, quoted in Poole’s Index (Kan. Rev., viii. 435; also, viii. 236, 640). It was more carefully examined and its claims rejected by a writer in the Journal of Science (London), (“Atlantis once more,” June, 1883; xx. 319-327). W. F. Poole doubts whether Mr. Donnelly himself was quite serious in his theorizing (“Discoveries of America: the lost Atlantis theory,” Dial, Sept., 1884, v. 97). Lord Arundel of Wardour controverted Donnelly in The Secret of Plato’s Atlantis (London, 1885), and believes that the Atlantis fable originated in vague reports of Hanno’s voyage—a theory hardly less remarkable than the one it aims to displace. Lord Arundel’s book was reviewed in the Dublin Review (Plato’s “Atlantis” and the “Periplus” of Hanno), July, 1886, xcix. 91.
[433] Renard, M., Report on the Petrology of St. Paul’s Rocks, Challenger Report, Narrative (London, 1882), ii. Appendix B.
[434] A search for “Atlantis” with the microscope, in Nature, 9 Nov., 1882, xxvii. 25.
[435] The microscopic evidence of a lost continent, in Science, 29 June, 1883, i. 591.
[436] Origines Celticae (London, 1883), i. 119, etc.
[437] The discoveries of America to the year 1525 (New York, 1884), ch. 1. Cf. Poole’s review of this jejune Work, quoted above, for some healthy criticism of this kind of writing (Dial, v. 97). Also a notice in the Nation, July 31, 1884.