JEWISH, PH@NICIAN, AND EARLY GREEK ART, ETC, Al 
The researches of Schliemann and Di Cesnola have likewise 
served to throw some fresh light on those personal ornaments 
of which we read in the sacred writings—bracelets, rings, 
necklaces, anklets, head-tires, crescents, nose-jewels, amulets, 
gems, and other articles, for the profuse wearing of which 
the prophet Isaiah sternly rebukes the Jewish women 
(ui. 17-23). Of each and all of these the tombs of 
Greece and Cyprus have furnished admirable specimens, 
manufactured, too, in all probability, by the very artists and 
goldsmiths who supplied the maids and matrons of Israel. 
Bangles, bracelets, chatelaines, and even crosses were in those 
early days almost as fashionable as they are now in Constan- 
tinople harim or London drawing-room. 
‘IT have, I fear, more than exhausted my space, and yet I 
have only just been able to touch the borders of an interesting 
and almost inexhaustible subject. The study of it has helped 
me at least to understand more fully many portions of Holy 
Scripture. It has given me a clearer conception than I might 
otherwise have had of the splendour, the artistic finish, and 
the wondrous richness in decoration and furniture of that 
Temple which Solomon and a devoted people reared up and 
dedicated to the service of the Living God. All the resources 
of his own kingdom, ali the wealth he could gather from 
foreign nations, all the skill and talent he could obtain from 
the most celebrated architects and most accomplished artists 
then in the world were, with surpassing zeal and energy, 
concentrated in the grand effort to erect a house in some 
measure worthy of the Junovan Gop of Israel. King David 
had said :—‘‘The house that is to be builded for the Lord 
must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory 
throughout all countries”? (1 Chron. xxii. 5). His promise 
and most sanguine anticipations were fulfilled in the Temple 
of Solomon. 
The Cuarrman (Mr. D. Howard, V. Pres. Chem. Soc.).—I have now 
to ask you to pass a vote of thanks to Mr. Cadman Jones for having read 
this paper in the absence of the author, Dr. Porter, who is obliged to be 
present at Queen’s College, Belfast, of which he is president. It is a very 
interesting paper, and it has added to our pleasure to hear it so admirably 
read. We shall now be glad to hear any remarks which those present may 
desire to make. The subject is one which, as the writer of the paper says, 
opens up a vast sphere of inquiry. The interchange of ideas in early times 
on the subject of architecture and the true history of the artistic and 
technical knowledge displayed in the very early days here referred to are 
matters of peculiar interest. We are apt to suppose that the Greeks 
