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Unaer this heading, it is proposed to call attention to a selection from 

 current literature relating to the archeology or natural history of our comity. 

 Communications should he addressed to the Hon. Editor. 



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By the Rev. J. Charles Cox, LL.D., F.S.A. 



R. GOTCH, who has long ago proved himself to be 

 a master on the subject of the architecture of the 

 Renaissance in England, has recently produced an 

 admirable historical and descriptive account of the 

 Tudor, EHzabethan, and Jacobean periods, in a volume that 

 is generously illustrated with aptly chosen examples. Text 

 books have been almost unduly multiplied with regard to the 

 development and evolution of English architecture down to 

 the close of the fifteenth century. Many a fairly well-read 

 Englishman has more or less correct notions of the successive 

 periods of Gothic architecture, particularly as displayed in 

 what the " restorers" have left us of our parochial churches; 

 but from Tudor times downwards there is for the most part 

 considerable ignorance. The time for sneering at everything 

 that was not Gothic has happily gone by, and Mr. Gotch has 

 opportunely stepped in at the beginning of a new century 



* Early Renaissance Architecture in England. By J. A. Gotch, F.S.A. 

 Price, 2s. net. B. T. Batsford, High HolJaorn. 



We are much indebted to Mr. Batsford for the loan of the blocks that 

 illustrate this notice. 



