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hie as something monstrous. It is astonishing how people calling 

 themselves architects should be so ignorant of the archaeology of their 

 art. Even taste and common sense ought to have pointed out to 

 them the absurdity of disfiguring an edifice built on the plan of archi- 

 tecture of the tenth or fifteenth century, by modern ingredients, to 

 erect in it an immensely large altar, giving to the whole the appear- 

 ance of two distinct churches, one within the other, and not seldom 

 obstructing the view of a fine piece of architecture or window ; by 

 such a proceeding they defy all the rules of the art and taste, destroy 

 all harmony of architecture to raise a lasting monument of their own 

 ignorance and vanity." 



The sketches of the figures are elegantly executed, and sufficiently 

 illustrated to convey the views of the author. The whole is chrono- 

 logically arranged, showing at once the architecture of the various 

 ages, and exhibiting to the naked eye its style, symmetry, and pecu- 

 liar beauties. 



Die Herer im Westen und Osten. Eine ethnographische Unter- 

 suchung iiber deren Stammverwandtschaft, nach der Mythe und 

 Geschichte, mit Riick sicht aiif die Cultur und Sprache dieses 

 Volks; nebst einer Ansicht der Homerischen Kimmerier und der 

 sogenannten Homerischen Geographic iiberhaupt. Artemidorus der 

 Geograph. — ( The Iberians in the West and the East ; an eth- 

 nographical investigation into their relationship, in accordance with 

 Mythology and History, and with regard to the culture and lan- 

 guage of that people ; together with a view of the Homeric Cim- 

 merians and the so-called Homeric Geography in general. Arte- 

 midorus the Geographer). By Dr. S. F. W. Hoffmann. Leipsic, 

 1838. 



There is much information to be gathered, in the first part, con- 

 cerning the Homeric Geography. The author, however, in fairly es- 

 tablishing the principle that, in treating the subject, we ought not to 

 carry our present better knowledge of geography into the field of in- 

 vestigation to serve as a standard for our research, has himself, on the 

 other hand, violated the very same principle, by placing the Homeric 

 Cimmerians, who are involved in the mist of the fables and fictions of 

 the earliest ages, in the north, and perceiving in them, after the exam- 

 ple of Strabbo, a race of people who had settled in the vicinity 

 of the Caspian Sea. It is true that the hypothesis is greatly borne 

 out by a host of popular sayings ; yet similar testimonies may be 

 brought in support, also, of Scheria and Ogygia, which the author 

 rejects as pure fables, and for which he hurls his anathema against 

 his predecessors. At all events, it remains difficult to fix a firm 



