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LIST OF BOOKS 
haupt. . . . Ungemein lehrreich mit Hiilfe einiger Kartchen, deren wissenschaft- 
liche Begriindung wohl verdient von der neuen Ausgabe des Historischen Atlas 
von Spruner-Menke fiir die britannische Abtheilung ernstlich in Betracht gezogen 
zu werden, ist Alles, was ein so genauer Kenner seiner Heimath, wie Skene es ist:, 
hinsichtlich der physikalischen und ganz besonders der geschichtlichen, Geographie 
derselben beibringt. . . . Linguistik, Ethnographie, Topographie und Kritik der 
historischen Quellen greifen fiir diese wichtige Epoche des Uebergangs wirkungs- 
voll in einander, wie es meines Wissens bisher in keinem anderen Werke geschehn 
ist.”—Géttingische gelehrte Anzeigen,—Dr. R. Pavut. 
SKENE—Celtic Scotland. 
A History of Ancient Alban. Vol. II. Book IJ. Church and Culture. In 8vo, 
with Maps, 15s. 
“He brings to the consideration of his subject a thoroughly unprejudiced mind. 
. . » He has waited till every source of information seems to have been exhausted, 
and then he gives us the result of his investigations in a calm and carefully weighed 
narrative. . . . ‘To thank Mr., Skene for a work like this might almost savour of 
jmpertinence. It stands alone in a field of labour in which others have not been 
idle,”—. epee § 
“‘We are glad now to welcome the second volume of the work, an instalment 
which will be found equally valuable with the first. . . . It is a work of the high- 
est value ; and our opinion of it is by no means to be measured by the brief men- 
tion to which we are limited here.”—Westminster Review. 
«« , . The second volume of Mr. Skene’s learned and valuable work on Celtic 
Scotland. . . . Mr. Skene is unimpeachably impartial.”—Saturday Review. 
““Mr, Skene bears himself . . . with a serene impartiality. .. . He is no mere 
polemic, using history as a weapon for controversial purposes. .. . Instead of 
building with materials derived from cloudland he proceeds according to the best 
methods of historic criticism. . . . Such are his fairness no less than his facility of 
suggestion, his painstaking enthusiasm no less than the minute fidelity of his eru- 
dition, his reverent spirit no less than his ingenuity and power of synthesis, that 
his views may be trusted assuredly to prevail, Most readers will instinctively 
detect in him qualities that suffice to protect novelty from the accusation of 
paradox.” —Spectator, 
SKENE—Celtic Scotland. 
A History of Ancient Alban. Vol. III. Book III., Land and People. 
Un the Press. 
SMALL—Scottish Woodwork of the Sixteenth and Seven- 
teenth centuries. Measured, Drawn, and Lithographed by J. W. Smaxu, Architect. 
In one folio volume, with 130 Plates, Four Guineas. 
‘Guided by competent knowledge, the compiler of this work would appear to 
have had ample access to desirable examples, and has thus been enabled to make 
a selection well fitted at once to gratify the connoisseur and to afford valuable 
suggestions to the designer or the craftsman. ... The lithograph plates are 
Penuanally executed, and the volume altogether brought out in capital style.”— 
cotsman. 
“Mr, J. W. Small’s very admirable volume, illustrative of ancient Scottish wood- 
work. .. . It is impossible to over-estimate the value of the minute details that 
abound in Mr. Small’s admirable work. Very opportunely has Mr. Small come to 
the rescue of art furniture with his admirable work, of which it is impossible to* 
speak in unduly eulogistic terms.” —Furniture Gazette. 
SMITH-—Shelley: a Critical Biography. 
By Grorce Barnett Smite. Ex. feap. 8vo, 6s. 
“One of the kindest, if not exactly one of the acutest estimates that has ever 
been written of a poet about whose life, genius, and works, many writers have 
greatly differed, and about whom future writers will continue to differ.”—Scot: 
“Mr, Barnett Smith may be congratulated upon having undertaken a noble and 
