Mr. Evans's Work on Stone Implements. 



THE ANCIENT 



STONE IMPLEMENTS 



WEAPONS, AND ORNAMENTS, 



OF 



GREAT BRITAIN. 



By JOHN EVANS, F. E. S. 

 1 vol., Svo. With Two Plates and Four Hundred and Seventy-six Woodcuts. 



PRICE, 85.00. 



" A goodly volume of more than six hundred pages, illustrated by nearly as many 

 excellent woodcuts, discoursing learnedly of nothing save stones and streams, and find- 

 ing in them sermons of great and, to many readers, novel interest. It might have been 

 supposed, when Mr. Evans had published his well-known work on the ' Coins of the An- 

 cient Britons,' that he had gone back as far as possible in the history of our land and 

 nation ; but in archaeological as in other sciences, there is in the lowest known depth 

 one lower still remaining to be fathomed ; every chamber opened to the light discloses 

 others lying beyond it. From a people who had no literature, or none of which they 

 have left any trace beyond the rude characters inscribed on their rude coins, we are now 

 carried back to tribes and races which possessed neither coins nor letters; people who 

 have left us neither their sepulchres nor their ashes, nor indeed any trace of their exist- 

 ence, save the rude triangular or sub-triangular fragments of worked stone which served 

 them for tools or weapons ; and even these are usually found buried beneath the wreck 

 and ruin, it may be, of continents or islands which have long since been worn and wasted 

 away. The publication of this work is remarkable as an evidence of the quickened pace 

 which characterizes scientific research in our days." Nature. 



"The subject-matter of the volume is divided under the heads of Neolithic, Cave 

 Implements, and Implements of the River Drift, in each of which a classification is made 

 of the forms peculiar to these periods, and, what is of the utmost consequence in a work 

 of this character, it is illustrated by no less than 476 well-executed woodcuts. 



" In dealing with historic notices of stone and bronze weapons it might be thought 

 that little could be added to the knowledge we already have ; our author has, however, 

 contrived to bring forward such a mass of fresh evidence from ancient authors as would 

 alone have sufficed to shape the arguments of those who still deny the succession of the 

 stone and bronze ages." Athenaeum. 



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