5 2 -Natural Hiftory of the Ancients. 



dog, however, turns out to be Humu, a god, and 

 the difficulty was got over (fee Berjeau's "Varieties 

 of Dogs in old Sculptures," etc., London, 1863, 



P.O. 



Somerville's four books in blank verfe on the 

 chafe are, perhaps, too lengthy for readers who 

 tire quickly of Milton; but the adventurous 

 explorer will find fome landfcapes in them which 

 betray no mean defcriptive fkill, lit up every here 

 and there by a flam of imagination. He, too, 

 was evidently a dog-lover ; and feveral good 

 defcriptions of the hounds which found favour 

 with huntfmen at the beginning of the laft 

 century atteft his enthufiafm for hunting. After 

 his verfes no further excufe can be found for con- 

 tinuing the fubjecl, though it is worth while to 

 add that a few notices on dogs are contained in 

 Pepys's " Diary." 



