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L. REEVE AND CO. S PUBLICATIONS. 
ANTIQUARIAN. 
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SACRED AECH^OLOGY ; a Popular Dictionary of Eccle- 
siastical Art and Institutions, from Primitive to Modern Times. Compris- 
ing Architecture, Music, Vestments, Furniture Arrangement, Offices, Cus- 
toms, Ritual Symbolism, Ceremonial Traditions, Religious Orders, etc., of 
the Chm-ch Catholic in all Ages. By Mackenzie E, C. Walcott, 
B.D. Oxon., F.S.A., Prsecentor and Prebendai-y of Chichester Cathedral. 
Demy 8vo, ISs. 
Mr. Walcott's ' Dictionary of Sacred Archaeology' is designed to satisfy a great 
and growing want in the literature of the day. The increased interest taken by 
large classes of the community in the Ecclesiastical History, the Archfeology, the 
Ritual, Aa'tistic, and Conventual Usages of the early and middle ages of Christen- 
dom has not been met by the publication of manuals at all fitted by their com- 
prehensiveness, their accuracy, and the convenience of their arrangement to 
supply this highly important demand. To combine in one the varied and general 
information required by the cultivated reader at large with the higher and more 
special sources of knowledge of which the student of ecclesiastical lore has need, 
is the object which has been kept in view in the compilation now offered to the 
public. In no work of the kind has the English public, it is confidently believed, 
had presented to it so large and varied a mass of matter in a form so conveniently 
arranged for reference. One valuable feature to which attention may be invited 
is the copious list of authorities prefixed to Mr. Walcott's Dictionary. The 
student will here find himself put readily upon the track for following up any 
particular line of inquiry, of which the Dictionary has given him the first outlines. 
MAN^S AGE IN THE WORLD ACCORDING TO 
HOLY SCRIPTURE AND SCIENCE. Bv an Essex Rector. Demy 
8vo, 264 pp., 8^. 6d. 
The Author, recognizing the established facts and inevitable deductions of 
Science, and believing all attempts to reconcile them with the commonly re- 
ceived, but erroneous, literal interpretation of Scripture, not only futile, but detri- 
mental to the cause of Truth, seeks an interpretation of the Sacred Writings on 
general principles, consistent alike with their authenticity, when rightly under- 
stood, and with the exigencies of Science. He treats in successive Chapters of 
The Flint Weapons of the Drift,— The Creation,— The Paradisiacal State,— The 
Genealogies, — The Deluge, — Babel and the Dispersion ; and adds an Appendix 
of valuable information from various soiirces. 
A MANUAL OF BRITISH ARCHAEOLOGY. By 
Charles Boutell, M.A. Royal 16mo, 398 pp., 20 Coloured Plates, 
105. 6d. 
A treatise on general subjects of antiquity, written especially for the student 
of archaeology, as a preparation for more elaborate works. Architectm-e, Se- 
pulchral Monuments, Heraldry, Seals, Coins, Illuminated Manuscripts and In- 
scriptions, Arms and Armour, Costume and Personal Ornaments, Pottery, Por- 
celain and Glass, Clocks, Locks, Carvings, Mosaics, Embroider}', etc., are treated 
of in succession, the whole being illustrated by 20 attractive Plates of Coloured 
Figures of the various objects. 
