The _Salisbury Volume_ of the Archaeological Institute, which has just
been issued, contains some extremely interesting communications, among
which we must particularise for its agreeable character Mr. Hunter's
Reminiscences of the _Topographical Gatherings at Stourhead_,--for its
learning and originality, Mr. Guest's Memoir on the _Early English
Settlements in South Britain_.[7] Mr. Smirke contributes a valuable
notice of the _Custumal of Bleadon_,--Mr. Newton, _Notes on the
Sculptures at Wilton_,--Mr. Hawkins on _The Mints of Wiltshire_; and not
the least interesting portion of the volume consists of notices
respecting _Silbury and Avebury_, by the late excellent and lamented
Dean of Hereford. The volume contains many other instructive memoirs,
and is well calculated to advance archaeological knowledge.
[Footnote 7: Mr. Guest's suggestion (p. 30.), that _Grimsditch_
means a boundary, deserves the attention of our correspondents.]
The new volume of Bohn's _Standard Library_ is the fourth of Mrs.
Foster's excellent translations of _Vasari's Lives of the most Eminent
Painters, Sculptors, and Architects_. It contains no fewer than nineteen
lives, including, among many whose names are less familiar to English
amateurs, those of Sebastian del Piombo, and that admirable scholar of
Raphael, whom Shakespeare has helped to immortalise by designating him
that "rare Italian master Giulio Romano." All lovers of art are under
great obligations to the publisher for placing this translation within
their reach.--Mr. Cyrus Redding's _History and Description of Modern
Wines_ is the new volume of Bohn's _Illustrated Library_; and, as the
author describes "the art of taking wine" as "the science of exciting
agreeable conversation and eliciting brilliant thoughts," and discourses
learnedly upon the subject, his book may well find friends.--_Lucretius
on the Nature of Things, literally translated into English Prose_, by
the Rev. J. S. Watson, M.A., _to which is added the Poetical Version_,
by J. M. Good, is another volume of Bohn's _Classical Library_; and the
scholarship of Mr. Watson affords a sufficient justification for his
prefatory remark, "that he who wishes to know what is in Lucretius
without perusing the original, will learn it from this volume with
greater certainty than from any other previously offered to the English
reader." Every page bears evidence of the pains and ability displayed by
Mr. Watson in his endeavour to clothe Lucretius in an English garb.
There is no Query so frequently put and so rarely answered to the
satisfaction of the Querist as _What is the fare?_ Walker's _Cab Fare
and Guide Map of London_, in which all the leading streets and
thoroughfares are marked off in half-miles, being so small that it may
be carried in a pocket-book, yet so distinct as to admit of no doubt,
will however put an end to the very unpleasant state of uncertainty and
dispute in which all who ride in cabs are apt to find themselves
involved.
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