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SCIENCE. 



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not be saiil in reeognitioa of tliis interest in a 

 brancli of science not over-popular in these 

 days, wiiicli has led the author to an expense 

 of time and money hardly likel}' to be appre- 

 ciated. Still, it is to be regretted that the 

 ciiief attention devoted to this reproduclion 

 was evidently directed to an exeniplillcalion of 

 an improbable method of lighting. A second 

 galleiy is added to the temple, the trenches 

 sunk deeply in the roof being made accessible 

 l)v stairs ; and these pionihi JNIr. Fergusson 

 sets apart for the females of the Athenian con- 



satisfaction by students of archeology is the 

 arraignment of Mr. Wood, the explorer of 

 Ephesos, whose inadequate publications, and 

 selfish hiding-away of the results of his richly 

 endowed work, deserve all the as|)eritv with 

 wiiicli 3Ir. Kergusson treats them (p. ;V2). 



The printing is careftd. We notice few 

 minor errors. Lagardette's folio is dated Paris, 

 bs'O, instead of -seventh year of the repub- 

 lic (1799);' while '•]\I.' IJoetticher's essa^y, 

 published at I'otsdam in 1.S47. is said to be 

 witiiout date. 



gregation, who must have been as uncomforta- 

 ble there as the most confu-med misogynist of 

 antiquity could have desired. The staircases, 

 by the way, present in the section (pi. A) a 

 curiously impossil)le arrangement, approaching 

 from either side as they ascend, so as to in- 

 tersect at the level of the gallery, and leave 

 no landing-place, — not a good instance of 

 that api)lication of common sense to the study 

 of Greek architecture which Mr. Kergusson .so 

 warmly advocates. It lias, moreover, been 

 ascertained that the stairs in the Parthenon 

 were situated where they might naturally be 

 expected, — next to the entrance-door, not at 

 the farther end of the naos. 



A part of the book sure to be read with great 



THE ORKNEYS AND SHETLAND. 



The Orkneys and Shetland; their pant and present 

 state. By John R. Tudor. London, Stanford, 

 1883. 29-1-703 p., illuslr. 8°. 



Mr. Tudoh has collected and revised a series 

 of letters published under tiic nom ih- plume of 

 'Old Wick,' in The field, the English sport- 

 ing-journal, from 1.S7S to 1880, on the Orkneys 

 and Shetland, and, with contributions from 

 several scientific friends, has prepared a very 

 entertaining book on these out-of-the-way is- 

 lands. The general reader will find in it an 

 interesting historical essaj', embracing the pe- 

 liod from Norse occupation to modern times, 

 followed by local descriptions and numerous 



