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but widely distant, geographically speaking. Pro- 

 fessor Heer has spent the best part of his life, and 

 won numerous scientific laurels, in deciphering this 

 great stone l^ook of Miocene Switzerland. Hitherto, 

 the only way the geological student could get at 

 Professor Heer's results was either second-hand, 

 thi-ough the pages of "manuals," or by unearthing 

 them from scientific journals and memoirs. Now we 

 have the full and complete results set before us by 

 the author himself, and we are thankful for them. 



has grown into a completeness it did not possess 

 before. Intending students and actual workers in 

 this department of research will therefore welcome; 

 Mr. Llewellyn Jewitt's "Half-hours with English 

 Antiquities " (London : Hardwicke & Bogue). No 

 other writer was more fit to undertake the somewhat 

 difficult task of making these things plain as Mr. 

 Jewitt has done. The work is richly illustrated by 

 vigorous and artistic woodcuts, some of which we arc 

 enabled to reproduce here for the benefit of our 



Fig. 74. Roman Masonry at Colchester. (From Jewitt's " Half-hours with English .\ntiquities.") 



Fig. 75. The Lanyon Cromlech. 



Fig. 76. Grooved .Stone-hammer, with 

 twisted Withes for holding. 



The work is in two volumes, abundantly illustrated 

 with capital woodcuts, of which we are enabled, by 

 the kindness of the editor, to reproduce several. 

 Numerous full-page lithograph illustrations are also 

 introduced, giving us " ideal landscapes," &c., of the 

 various geological epochs. A coloured geological 

 map adds to the completeness of this work for practi- 

 cal purposes. We should say that the present is an 

 English translation, edited by Mr. James Heywood, 

 F.R.S., who has in every way done his part well, 

 and presented to English geologists the best book on 

 Swiss geology we have yet received. 



Within the last few years the study of archeology 



readers. The arrangement and style of the book arc 

 alike excellent. The former includes chapters on 

 "Barrows," "Stone Circles, Cromlechs, &c.," 

 "Flint and Stone Implements," "Celts and other 

 early Instruments of Bronze," " Roman Roads, Tes- 

 sellated Pavements, Altars, Temples, Inscriptions, 

 &c.," "Ancient Pottery," "Arms and Armour," 

 "Sepulchral Brasses, &c.," "Coins," "Church 

 Bells," "Stained Glass, Tapestry," &c., "Personal 

 Ornaments," &c. From this list the reader will sec 

 how important an introduction is the above work tt> 

 the study of archaeology. 



" Text-books " of science are among the notable 



