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and-Ring sculptures by the editor, those of Ilkley-in-Wharfedale, 

 the very interesting curved swastika of Woodhouse Crag, and a 

 picture of the Doubler Stones on Silsden Moor, being reproduced 

 among the many illustrations. Mr. Alfred W. Johnston writes on 

 the " Dwarfie Stone " of Hoy, Orkney. This is a block of Old Red 

 Sandstone, 28 feet, by 14 feet, by 3 to 6 feet high, and has been 

 excavated near the larger end, to form two chambers, a large stone 

 lying alongside having apparently served at one time as a door. The 

 various legends connected with the stone, which was first referred to 

 in 1529, are discussed, but Mr. Johnston inclines to the belief that 

 it was originally a place of sepulture. Other papers in the volume, 

 of special interest to us, deal with flint implements, and an exploration 

 of Rains' Cave in Derbyshire, a note on which will be given in our 

 Notes and Comments. 



More Reliqui^ Diluvian^. 

 The Testimony of Science to the Deluge. By W. B. Galloway, M.A., 

 Chaplain to the Earl de Montalt. 8vo. Pp. vii., i66. London: Sampson Low, 

 Marston & Co. [no date : 1896 ?] . Price 6s. 



The object of this book is to prove that the " so-called glacial 

 deposits " are due to a great deluge produced by the shifting of the 

 earth's axis of rotation, any sudden change in which would un- 

 doubtedly have interesting results. The author's main qualification 

 for the difficult task of the reconciliation of the teachings of Moses 

 and Lyell apparently is that he is chaplain to the Earl de Montalt. 

 The author is conscious of the importance of his mission and has been at 

 elaborate pains, he tells us, "to make double sure of every step of" cer- 

 tain mental processes which he fondly calls "his reasoning." That we 

 should not dignify them with this name is probably due to deficiencies 

 in the author's expression rather than in anything else. He tells us 

 " of a Great Ice Age of enormous extent, depth, and duration." We 

 should not be surprised to hear that the author regards an ice age as 

 the same thing as an ice-sheet; but if he does not, perhaps in his next 

 edition he will be good enough to explain what is the extent and 

 depth of an- age. By the science of to-day the author sets little score ; 

 but there are hopes for it in the future, for he assures us that " science 

 will right itself." He seems, however, doubtful about it, and so does 

 his best to help the somersault. There is very little in the book that 

 we agree with, so we hasten to quote his maxim that " science does 

 not rest on the authority of names." Assuredly it does not rest on 

 the authority of the names he adduces in support of his propositions ; 

 for he goes to Cuvier and Josephus for anatomy, to "a man of science" 

 (Mr. Mungo Ponton, F.R.S.E., to wit), for biblical criticism, to the 

 late Dr. Pye-Smith for botany, to Job for terrestrial physics, and to 

 Sir Wilham Dawson and Professor Hull for geology. The author 

 had hopes of Sir Joseph Prestwich, but he died still encrusted by a 

 tenacious theory ; so that another good man is lost. The most 

 important information we have derived from a perusal of this work 

 is that the Earl de Montalt keeps a chaplain. 



Good News for South Africa. 

 Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel. (New Issue). Africa, 

 Vol IL South Africa. By A. H. Keane. Pp. xvi., 671, with numerous illus- 

 trations. London: Edward Stanford, 1895. Price 15s. 



This volume represents an enlargement of half of Keith Johnston's 

 once useful work on Africa, of which the last edition was issued in 



