298 Notices respecting New Books. 
navigation has been treated in a popular manner, while the in- 
formation communicated by the author is lucid and satisfactory. 
The plates are remarkably well drawn, and engraved in the 
first style. 
Mr. Taylor, of the Architectural Library, Holborn, has just 
published the Fourth Volume of the Antiquities of Athens, &¢. 
measured and delineated by James Stuart, F.R.S. and F.S.A., 
and Nicholas Revett, Painters and Architects; edited by Joseph 
Woods, Architect. 
This volume contains 88 plates, besides 15 vignettes, en- 
graved by the best artists, uniformly with the preceding volumes; 
together with historical and descriptive accounts of the several 
subjects ; also a portrait of Mr. Revett, from a picture painted 
by himself, and engraved in the line manner by Isaac Taylor, 
and memoirs of the lives of the authors. 
Messrs. Stuart and Revett being detained at Venice, in their 
way to Athens, made an excursion to Pola, where they passed 
six months in measuring the subjects, and in making the draw- 
ings, which are now submitted to the public; and which formed 
a part of their original scheme of publication. 
The admiration with which these remains of antiquity have 
always been mentioned, no less than their intrinsic merits, ren- 
der it desirable that they should be offered in complete detail to 
the public, which has by no means been the case in any of the 
works in which they have hitherto been noticed. ‘The subjects 
are an amphitheatre, the temple of Rome and Augustus, and 
the arch of the Sergii. 
The sketch-books of Messrs. Stuart and Revett have furnished 
several plates of curious fragments of ancient architecture and 
sculpture found in the Greek Islands, with views of Mount Par- 
nassus and the Rock of Delphi. 
The exquisite sculptures which adorned the temple of Minerva 
at Athens have ever been objects of the highest admiration, 
and are now become particularly interesting, from the circum- 
stance of a large portion of them having arrived in this country. 
Of these beautiful specimens of ancient art there are 34 plates, 
from drawings by Mr. Pars, representing the entire west frieze 
of the cell, with some parts of the north and south sides, and- 
several of the metopes of the exterior frieze. These, with those 
already published in the second volume of this work, exhibit all 
the sculpture which remained of the temple at the time (1751) 
Stuart and Revett were at Athens. Amongst these are five 
plates, showing the state of the sculpture in the pediments in 
the year 1683, when visited by the Marquis de Nointel, from 
copies of the original drawings in the King’s library at Paris. 
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