Notes and Comments. 



been distinguished from actual eoliths.' The promised 'full 

 account of the pseudo-eoliths' will be awaited with interest, as 

 well as the opinion of English archaeologists thereon. 



PICTURESQUE PICKERING.* 

 We recently referred in these columns to the charming work 

 on ' Yorkshire Coast and Moorland Scenes ' which had been 

 written by Mr. Gordon Home. The same author has now 

 produced another work excelling in every way its predecessor, 

 which is perhaps the greatest compliment that can be paid to it. 

 In the ' Evolution of an English Town ' the author writes the 

 story of the ancient town of Pickering from the earliest times to 



the date on which his book was printed. Pickering is unques- 

 tionably an ideal place for such a purpose, inasmuch as within 

 its immediate vicinity occurs a number of relics of the past, 

 representing each principal period in the history of the ' broad- 

 acred shire ' towards the eastern extremity of which the town is 

 situated. To use the author's own words he has ' endeavoured 

 to produce a complete series of pictures, commencing with the 

 Ice Age and finishing at the dawn of the twentieth century. 

 Much of the work is of particular value to naturalists and those 

 interested in prehistoric remains. Mr. Home commences with 



* ' The Evolution of an English Town.' J. M. Dent & Co. los. 6d. 



Naturalist. 



