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Reviews and Book Notices. 



Quarterly Record of Additions, No. XXII. Notes on the more 

 Important Archaeologica! Discoveries in East Yorlcshire. A note 

 on a British Chariot Buria! at Hunmanby in East Yorkshire. 

 Being Hull Museum Publications Nos. 45, 46, and 47. One penny- 

 each. By T. Sheppard, F.G.S., Curator. 



To those famihar with previous numbers of these useful and interesting 

 publications it is sufficient to say that these three are in every respect their 

 worthy successors. The second of these is the subject of a paper read before 

 the East Riding Antiquarian Society, by the Curator of the Hull Municipal 

 Museum, the immediate sequel being the passing of a resolution making 

 the Museum the repository of the Society's collection. That such an action 

 is the only possible one to secure the permanent preservation of objects 

 of antiquarian interest is made abundantly evident by the cases the author 

 cites of collections of various kinds, and unique finds which are matters of 

 history, and unfortunately for the present day student, matters of history 

 only. How often in reading of the discoveries in past ages, of articles 

 which to-day would be of transcendent interest we have asked the question 

 the author asks again and again : ' Where are they now ? ' Dispersed, 

 lost, forgotten, or destroyed ; we cannot tell. Fortunately for the East 

 Riding at any rate, while regrets for the loss of so many invaluable relics 

 will be none the less keen, the Hull Museum should prove sufficiently 

 powerful to prevent any similar dispersion of East Riding antiquities, 

 provided always that the powers that be are gifted with that civic spirit 

 which, while supremely mindful of their public trust, can appreciate to the 

 full unique opportunities as they present themselves, and rise to the occa- 

 sion accordingly. In most cases, the provision of accomodation is the one 

 thing needful to secure valuable additions such as are mentioned in these 

 pamphlets, and we should imagine that so long as these objects of general 

 interest, and, because of their unique variety, of great value also, are forth- 

 coming, so long will every effort be made to house them as they deserve. 

 Not the least interesting, because of its varied nature, is the first of these 

 pamphlets. Old Coaching Days, A Mediaeval Parish Library, Charles I. 

 Copper coins. Ode to Wilberforce and a German tribute to Hull are some of 

 the subjects to be found in its pages. In these days, when every alleged 

 reformer in this country points to Germany as an example for England to 

 follow, it is refreshing to find that there they^ are doing the opposite. There 

 is a moral here for those who are not above finding one. The making of a 

 fac-simile chain to attach to a genuine old sixteenth century book by means 

 of its genuine brass loop is a questionably justifiable proceeding. It may 

 be that no harm is done so long as the imitation is carefully distinguished 

 from the real, but there is always a danger after a lapse of time of this vital 

 distinction being forgotten or overlooked to the disadvantage and discredit 

 of the genuine article. — E, G. B, 



What Rome was built with, by Mary W. Porter. London : Henry 

 Frowde, 1907. 108 pp. 



In this well written little book the authoress g'ives a description of the 

 stones employed in ancient times for the building- and decoration of Rome. 

 The fact that she was entrusted with the re-arranging and cataloging of the 

 thousand fine slabs in the Oxford University Museum is evidence of her 

 ability to speak with authority on the subject. About 144 B.C. the mania 

 for rare and costly building material, brought from great distances, began. 

 The craze quickly spread, and the streets of Rome became dangerous by 

 reason of the over-laden carts. Columns of marble measuring- six feet in 

 diameter and forty-five feet in length were discovered among ths ruins of 

 Trajan's Temple in 1887, Some blocks of Carrara marble in the pedestal 

 of Trajan's column weigh eighty tons each. Notwithstanding- the two 

 thousand years of plunder, havoc, and change, there are at the present day 

 no fewer than nine thousand whole columns of marble remaining in the city. 

 Besides this building- material, precious marbles and stones of various sorts 

 were imported. Of these a good account is given, their sources are traced, 

 and their geological structures commented upon. 



Naturalist, 



