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position are being put right under the supervision of the 

 Society of Antiquaries; and the holes of an outer row of stones, 

 now gone with one possible exception, have been discovered. 

 In these holes have been found charred human and animal 

 bones. Aubrey's map in 1666 shewed, in these places, 

 depressions in the turf, and one stone. In " Stonehenge," by 

 Inigo Jones, 1655, the author (p. 57) speaks of " The parallel 

 stones on the inside of the Trench, 4-foot broad, and 3-foot 

 thick : but they lie so broken and ruined by time that their 

 proportion in height cannot be distinguished, much lesse 

 exactly measured." It contains several plans. He also 

 mentions two large stones just outside the ditch at 

 each of the three entrances through it. At Mitcham 

 the excavations have been continued and six more graves found, 

 two with the bones of giant chieftains. A number of bodies 

 of women, perhaps their widows, appear to have been thrown 

 carelessly in the graves of the men. It is thought that they 

 may date from the 5th Century. Excavations have also been made 

 in Jersey and elsewhere, and a human figure has been found 

 sculptured on the Dolmen of Dehus, Guernsey. A horse 

 cemetery has, for the first time, been discovered in Egypt. 

 There \vere four rows of graves, the horses having their 

 chariot trappings and facing the south. 



GENERAL. 



A remark in a paper read at the British Association on 

 Education struck me as expressing an important need at the 

 present day, when slang is so greatly in the ascendant in some 

 quarters that the users of it seem to have forgotten that there 

 is such a language as English. It is " that the plainest, most 

 everyday speech should be clear, expressive, accurate, graceful 

 whenever possible, and at any rate decent; that a child should 

 learn to define and clarify in his mind the terms in which he 

 thinks, to think in real English, not in jargon." I fear that the 

 decision to make Greek voluntary at Oxford is a step in the 

 wrong direction; for I can hardly imagine a Greek scholar 



