460 Eevieivs — Keller's Siviss Lake-Dwellings. 



I. — The Lake Dwellings of Switzerland and other parts of 

 Europe. By Dr. Ferdinand Keller, Pres. Antiq. Soc, Ziirieli. 

 Translated and arranged by John Edward Lee, F.S.A., E.G-.S., 

 etc. 8vo. pp. 418. Illustrated by 97 Plates, and numerous 

 Woodcuts. London : Longman, Green, & Co. 1866. 



FEW discoveries relating to the early history of mankind hare 

 excited more general interest than that of the Lacustrine 

 villages of Switzerland. To Dr. Eerdinand Keller, the eminent 

 Swiss antiquary, and President of the Society at Zurich, we are 

 indebted for the first announcement of these Lake-dwellings. The 

 later writmgs of M. Ered. Troyon, Mr. W. M. Wylie, Sir John 

 Lubbock, and Sir Charles Lyell (chiefly derived from Dr. Keller's 

 Eeports to the Antiquarian Society at Zurich, 1854 and 1858), have 

 attracted the earnest attention of the scientific public in this country ; 

 and all the isolated cases of similar discoveries in Norfolk, Scotland, 

 and Ireland, at once assumed a fresh interest, as affording further 

 evidence in confirmation of the prevalence of such structures ; so 

 true is it, that man,. placed under analogous circumstances, acts in a 

 similar manner, irrespective of time or space. 



In the work before us, Mr. John Edward Lee, an eminent anti- 

 quary and geologist, well known as the author of "Isca Silurum," 

 and other works, has not only furnished us with a corrected and 

 revised translation of Dr. Keller's six reports, communicated to the 

 Antiquarian Association of Zurich between the years 1854 and 1866, 

 but he also gives us nearly 100 8vo. plates, one-half of which are 

 actual "transfers" of plates from Dr. Keller's work ; the others are 

 either drawn from the plates, or by the translator from the objects 

 themselves. Some idea may be foimed of the labour of this under- 

 taking, when it is stated that the objects figm-ed in the plates 

 exceed 1500, besides views of the pile-works in about fifteen dif- 

 ferent settlements, with plans of their construction and topographical 

 sketches of their relative positions. 



The following is a list of the settlements recorded : — 



It will be observed that the largest number of settlements have 



