The Book of Health, edited by Mr. Malcolm Morris (Cassells), is likely to be useful, not only to the general public for whom it is primarily intended, but also to the medical profession, which will recognise among its contributors names of well-known authority. The articles are generally sensible and clear, the advice sound and detailed; the Index is full. Dr. Hermann Weber's essay upon "Climate and Health Resorts" is a model of conciseness and thoroughness.

DR. B. W. RICHARDSON has written The Field of Disease (Macmillan) for "the intelligent reading public," whose tastes he has long studied, and educated, we hope, up to the point of reading this pretentious essay, which is most certainly neither scientific nor, in the ordinary sense, popular.

Wark Rectory, Northumberland: March 28, 1884. The following short story, translated from is so striking in its point and character that Kumarajiva's version of As'vaghosha's sermons, I think perhaps you might be disposed to publish it in the ACADEMY. It provides, as I think, another instance of probable contact between East and West at the time when it was written. As'vaghosha was a follower of Kanishka, who lived, as now generally believed, about the middle of the second half of the first century A.D. If St. Thomas ever went to India at the call of Gondoferus (who flourished just before Kanishka), we might here find a possible explanation of many parallels in the sermons of As'vaghosha and the Christian doctrine.

S. BEAL.

AS'VAGHOSHA'S SERMONS, K. 10, P. 17 (TEXT).
"Again, Whatever deeds men do, they will re-
ceive the fruit thereof.'

[To shine] without illuminating the earth;
For as they brighten the earth,

We know it is the result of works done before!*
Above the heavens and below

We may draw this distinction in all cases,
Much blessedness from much virtue!
Little blessedness from little virtue!
Know, then, throughout the world
All things result from previous cause;
Charity brings increase;

Moral conduct results in birth in heaven;
But if there is no root [cause] of charity,
Then happiness in consequence is scant,
Wisdom and meditation bring deliverance [sal-
vation].

These three [charity, wisdom, and meditation]
alone bring reward;

The "ten-powered lord " [Buddha] speaks thus:
"All things result from cause,"
Trouble me not, therefore [with your prayers]!
Practise virtue !

Then you will reap beneficent fruit!'"

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66

"I heard some time ago the following story:A certain poor man resolved with himself,I ought to offer sacrifice to the gods, that my present store of wealth may be increased, and my possessions multiplied!' Having thought thus Fourth Report on the Migration of Birds. with himself, he addressed his brother as follows:The committee appointed by the British "You must be diligent in cultivating the ground, Association for the Advancement of Science and working for the good of the house, so that no have issued another Report, but do not seem want be felt!' Then, taking his brother to the to draw any nearer to the mystery of bird- field, he said, 'In this place you are to sow .migration. Perhaps it is too soon to ask millet, in this place rice, here you must sow AT the meeting held last Monday in the them to generalise. The collection of statistics corn, and here pulse!' Having thus made arrangerooms of the Royal Society in Burlington Society for on the different birds which passed our light-ments, he went to offer up his sacrifices; he House, it was resolved to form a houses and lightships is full of interest to the offered up flowers and incense in profusion, and, the Biological Investigation of the Coasts of naturalist. and Mr. Cordeaux and Mr. J. A. H. morning and evening, bowed down prostrate before the United Kingdom; a provisional [the gods he adored], and humbly craved some council was appointed, with Prof. Ray Lankester substance. At this time the divine spirit (whom required for the establishment of marine present advantage and increase of his worldly as secretary. The sum of at least £6,000 is he adored) thought thus:-'I must look into the laboratories, and subscriptions are invited. previous history of this poor man to see whether, The meeting was adjourned to May 30. in his previous career, he has acquired merit by almsgiving, and so I may be enabled to grant his prayer for increase of wealth.' Having looked into the man's previous history, he found that he had never exercised the gift of charity, and so had no antecedent claim to the gratification of his wishes, and so he thought, 'This man, without any claim, still asks and prays that his wishes may be gratified, and that his cares may be lightened. I will now change myself and go to him, as he is engaged in sacrifice, under the form of his brother, and hold converse with him.' On this, changing himself into his brother's form, he went to the temple and stood beside him. Then his brother said, 'What are you doing here, instead of sowing the land?' On which the brother (in his assumed form) answered, 'I wished also to come to beg the gods to be propitious to me, and grant me food and raiment and although I have the god will produce fruit and increase! Then not sown the seed, yet I doubt not the power of the brother, upbraiding the other, said, 'How can you expect the ground, without being sown, to produce fruit? Such a thing is impossible!' and so he repeated the gatha

Brown, to whom the greater portion of this
Report is due, are to be congratulated on having
made, out of what might easily degenerate into a
long list of dry figures, a useful document for
the ornithologist. The committee appear to have
espoused Mr. Darwin's theory that birds origin-
ally travelled north or east merely for food,
and have continued to do so from habit during
a long course of ages, even when valleys have
become watercourses and wide plains vast
seas. Mr. A. R. Wallace's views, however,
are just as reasonable, though neither succeeds
in grappling with the prime difficulty-what
instinct is--which is implied in both theories.
The latter considers that migration is one of the
means of getting rid of the enormous surplus
of bird population, as only a small number, he
thinks, survive out of the vast crowds which
seek to pass from one region to another. In
East Scotland we find, from this Report, that
during the spring of 1882 swallows were
arriving until after the middle of May, while from
June onwards till autumn there were various,
probably local, migrations. Herons, it seems,
are at all times engaged in local migrations.
At the Isle of May, on September 22, a single
heron was seen 66
screaming as if lost" in the
haze of a calm day. It is easy to fancy what
would have been said of this lonely bird in the
days when witchcraft was a firm belief in Scot-
land. Year after year it is found that birds
follow the same lines of migration when
approaching or leaving our shores. Mr.
Gatke, from Heligoland, calls attention to
a vast swarm of the silver gamma moth
(Plusia gamma), which drifted across that
island from August 13 to 19, 1882, all
travelling from east to west, and in number
"millions like a snowstorm.' Those who re-
member Mr. Darwin's observations upon the
destruction which a severe winter works among
small birds will be interested in hearing that
previous to the terrible winter of 1878 the
chaffinch was the most common of small birds
in Islay, but after that very rare indeed until
on October 22, 1880, a flock of some thousands
appeared, and since then they have again been
abundant.

'Within the great sea-encompassed earth,
And in every place alike,
What fruit can be expected

Where no seed is sown?'

At this time the brother addressed the other (in
his assumed form) and said, 'In all the world how
can it be that the land produce fruit where no seed
has been sown?' Then the brother said, 'True!
without sowing there is no increase!' At which
time the Deva, re-assuming his heavenly appear-
ance, said,-

'Now, according to your own words,
Without sowing there is no reaping;
If, in your previous life, there has been no charity,

What fruit can you now expect?

Though now you endure self-affliction,
And deprive yourself to offer me offerings,
And so afflict your body with a view to propitiate
my goodness!

What is this but to trouble me with your services !
How can I grant you the increase
And the prosperity you desire?

BABU ASHTERTOSH MUJHARJI, who stood first in mathematics at the last B.A. examination of the Calcutta University, has been elected s fellow of the London Mathematical Society in consideration of his papers contributed to its Journal.

IN view of the recent discussion in the ACADEMY about "the sea-blue bird of March," it is not unworthy of record that two swallows were seen on Thursday of last week (March 27) as far north as Kelso, in Roxburghshire.

A TRANSLATION of Rochet's work on the natural proportions of both sexes, by Dr. Carter Blake, will be published immediately by Messrs. Baillière, Tindall, & Cox.

THE last number of the Proceedings of the Geologists' Association is notable for containing an elaborate paper, by Mr. H. M. Klaassen, descriptive of the section which was recently exposed at the Park Hill railway cutting at Croydon. This cutting displayed a far finer exposure of the Woolwich and Reading beds than had ever been seen before, and yielded to Mr. Klaassen's indefatigable labours some remarkable fossils, including bones of a gigantic bird and an ulna of the rare Eocene mammal called Coryphodon, the latter of which has been described by Mr. E. T. Newton under the name of C. Croydonensis. The great engineering difficulties attending the Park Hill cutting render it probable that no similar work will again be undertaken.

MR. LUCIEN CARR, assistant curator of the Peabody Museum, in the Mounds of the Mississippi Valley historically considered (Cincinnati), contends (as we think, successfully) that there is no need of the hypothesis of an unknown race as builders of these mounds; that the con

Probably regarding the sun, moon, and stars as devas; shining thus, in proof of their former good deeds.

If you want to get wealth i
Children and (rich) family c
Then learn to cleanse your b
And do worthy deeds of cham
To expect to reap advantag
without sowing,

Is as if we expected the s
stars

[To shine] without illam
For as they brighten the eart
We know it is the result f
Above the heavens and bel
We may draw this distinction
Much blessedness from much v
Little blessedness from little vi
Know, then, throughout the w
All things result from previous
Charity brings increase;
Moral conduct results in birth
But if there is no root cause f
Then happiness in consequence
Wisdom and meditation bring
vation].

These three [charity, wisdom,
alone bring reward;
The "ten-powered lord" [Bai
"All things result from case."
Trouble me not, therefore with
Practise virtue!
Then you will reap beneficent in

struction of the mounds themselves, and of all
the remains found therein, are within the
capabilities of the Red Indians of historic times,
or of their immediate predecessors. One of the
more elaborate-the mound of Circleville-was
certainly built after contact with the whites.

PHILOLOGY NOTES.

As readers of the ACADEMY know, Prof. Sayce
has brought back with him from Egypt careful
copies of a large number of Greek, Cypriote,
and Phoenician inscriptions. The Greek inscrip-
tions (one of which is at least as old as the
famous inscription at Abu Simbel) will probably
be published in the Journal of the Hellenic
Society; the Cypriote ones in the Transactions
of the Society of Biblical Archaeology; while
the Phoenician ones will be sent to Paris to
appear in the next volume of M. Renan's Corpus
Inscriptionum Semiticarum.

MR. E. A. SONNENSCHEIN, Professor of
Classics in the Mason College, Birmingham, is
engaged upon an edition of the Mostellaria of

Plautus.

the latter half of the sixth century. In the
other paper the Rev. J. D. Bate discusses the
burning of the Alexandrian library, and gives
reasons for accepting the traditional theory
that 'Amrû was responsible, as against the
scepticism of Gibbon.

THE Litterarisches Centralblatt of March 29
has a review of Mr. Wharton's Etyma Graeca.
"The book should be very useful to those who
are unable to study the subject themselves."

THE Philologische Rundschau of March 29 contains a careful (and not very favourable) review of Prof. Jebb's Oedipus Tyrannus, by the well-known critic Dr. Wecklein.

MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES.

Monuments de l'Art antique. Par O. Rayet.
Parts V. and VI. (Paris: Quantin.)
THE sixth part of M. Rayet's Monuments has
followed rapidly on the fifth, and would have
been no less welcome but for the announce-
ment that the series is now complete. Let us
hope it will not be long before M. Rayet and
his most praiseworthy publisher may see an
opportunity of continuing a work of so much
interest and value.

In part vi. the Caryatid of the Erechtheum
and the sculptured drum of a column from
Ephesus rival each other in the beauty with
which they are reproduced, not that as ex-
amples of sculpture they can compare for a
moment. It so happens, however, that the
artificial process of reproduction has lent
ROYAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY.—(Thursday, March 20.) itself with more advantage to the inferior of
DR. ZERFFI in the Chair.-Mr. C. J. Stone read a
the two works that is, to the Ephesian drum.
paper on "Historical Suggestions in the Mahá- For who can agree with M. Rayet that in
bharata," in which he contended that the internal presence of it one might forget that a cen-
evidence of the poem showed that it had beentury separates it from the frieze of the Par-
written before the development of Buddhism in thenon"? The difficulty is to understand
India, under King Asoka, in the third century B.C.,
but that there were suggestions of archaic how a century could have sufficed to produce
Buddhism in it. He asserted that, upon its testi- so marked a degradation. On the other hand,
mony, we must recognise a very high and we do not share the difficulty he finds with
elaborate civilisation to have been in existence regard to the plinths which supported the
on the plains of the Upper Ganges and Jumna, in
about the epoch of Pericles in Athens. He pro- sculptured columns in the temple of Diana
duced quotations to show that, in architecture, (several large pieces of which may be seen in
arts, arms, sciences, and in love of the beauties of the British Museum); they are sculptured
nature as well as of art, a refined civilisation was like the lowest drums of the columns. If M.
indicated. He also quoted passages in illustration

THE first part of the Transactions of the
Society of Biblical Archaeology for 1884 con-
tains a paper by the Rev. W. Houghton on
"The Birds of the Assyrian Monuments," which
has also been issued independently by Messrs.
Harrison & Sons as a pamphlet of one hundred
pages. Readers of the ACADEMY do not require
to be told that Mr. Houghton combines, in a
degree that has no parallel, the qualifica-
tions of philologer and naturalist. Even those of philosophical and religious culture. He adduced Rayet had been acquainted with the Memoirs

SCIENCE NOTES
Ar the meeting held last M.
rooms of the Royal Society
House, it was resolved to form a
the Biological Investigation t
to whom the cuneiform characters are naught
the United Kingdom;" and s
cannot fail to be interested by the numerous
council was appointed, with Prillustrations which the society always lavishes
upon its publications. Such a work is a credit
as secretary. The sum of at l
to English scholarship, especially when it is
required for the establishm
laboratories, and subscriptions borne in mind that the author is a country
The meeting was adjourned to clergyman, without ready access to libraries.

BABU ASHTERTOSH MUJHAR
in mathematics at the last B
the Calcutta University, has be

tellow of the London Maths
tensideration of his papers can
curualew of the reset Ever

Journal.

ACADEMY about “the sea-blue h it is not unworthy of record that were seen on Thursday of last

AT a recent meeting of the Académie des
Inscriptions, M. Sénart read a paper upon the
oldest of the religious edicts of Asoka, which is

preserved in three rock inscriptions at Sasse-
ram, Rupnath, and Barat. The text of it was
first published in 1877, and has given rise to
much controversy. M. Sénart agrees with Prof.
Buhler that it is a genuine edict of Asoka, and
that it embodies Buddhist ideas; but he also
agrees with Prof. Oldenberg, in opposition to
sent, not a date reckoned from the death of

the frequent mention of treatises on various
topics as testifying to a literary age; while even in
theatricals, elaborate cookery, and potent drinks
a civilisation akin to our own was suggested.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE.-(Wednesday,
March 26.)

JOSEPH HAYNES, ESQ., J.P., in the Chair.-Mr.
C. H. E. Carmichael, foreign secretary, read a
paper on "Grotius and the Literary History of the
Law of Nations," in which he traced the con-
nexion between the principal work of the great
Dutch publicist, and the earlier and less-known
Aquinas, Honoré Bouet, Christine de Pisan, and
others. Mr. Carmichael then passed in review
the relations between Gentili and Grotius, and
called attention to the recent publications of

in which Mr. Fergusson has proved this, he
would hardly have been so unfair as to ascribe
to his influence an objectionable notion of Mr.
Wood's. As to the subject sculptured on the
drum here in question-the story of Alkestis-
he is right so far in giving to Prof. Robert the
praise of having published an ample explana-
tion of it; at the same time, he will find in
Robert's notes an acknowledgment of the fact
that this particular explanation had long been
published and accepted in this country. But
we turn gladly to the more genial atmosphere
that surrounds the Caryatid of the
beautiful in the original marble, excellent as
a reproduction, and treated of with a literary
skill in which critical judgment and fine
without a touch of that hostility to things as
they are which M. Rayet has shown before
on occasion. He does well to be warmed by
his recollection of the porch of the Caryatides;
and for the glowing language in which he
recalls his impressions he may reckon on the
delight of many, it is to be hoped, besides
those who know the acropolis of Athens.
Part v. is perhaps the richest of the whole
series.

as far north as Kelso, in Port Prof. Bühler, that the numbers "256" repre- M. Nys and of Prof. Rivier, of Brussels, and of enthusiasm are evenly balanced, not altogether

A TRANSLATION of Rochest
natural proportions of th
Carter Blake, will be published
Messrs. Baillière, Tindall, & Ca

Sakhya Muni, but the number of missionaries
sent forth. The following is M. Sénart's version

of the entire text:

"Thus says the [king] dear to the devas. For two
years and a half I was upasaka (lay Buddhist) and
did not show great zeal; it is now a year since I
have entered the saingha (monastic brotherhood).
In that time the men who were the true gods of
the Jambudvipa (i.e., the Brahmans) have been
proved to be not true gods. Such has been the
effect of my zeal, an effect that cannot be gained
by power alone. The most lowly by showing zeal
can win heaven, however high. That is the end
which this teaching aims at-that all, lowly and
great, should show zeal, that the heathen them-
selves should be taught [by my proclamations],
and that this zeal should be lasting. So will be
wrought a [religious] advance, a great advance, an
infinite advance. It is by missionaries that this
teaching is done. Two hundred and fifty-six have
gone forth as missionaries. Engrave these things
upon the rocks; and where there are pillars of stone
engrave them there also."

THE last number of the Pre Geologists' Association is netale an elaborate paper, by Mr. E descriptive of the section exposed at the Park Hill Croydon. This cutting dis exposure of the Woolwich than had ever been seen bef Mr. Klaassen's indefatigable markable fossils, including b bird and an ulna of the ra called Coryphodon, the latter of 5described by Mr. E. T. Nest 25 of C. Croydonensis. The difficulties attending the F render it probable that e again be undertaken. MR. LUCIEN CARE, Peabody Museum, in the sippi Valley historically contends (as we think, s is no need of the hypother race as builders of these

* Probably regarding the as devas; shining thus, i od deeds.

THERE are at least two articles of interest in
the April number of the Indian Antiquary,
which has already reached us. One is by Mr.

K. T. Telang on the date of Sankarâchârya, the
reformer of Southern India. The writer argues,
in reply to Prof. Max Müller (who has adopted
A.D. 788 in his India: What can it Teach us?),
that a great body of evidence combines to give

Dr.
Opzoomer, of Amsterdam, on Grotius and
his principal predecessors. He also noticed some
of the chief controversies in which Grotius took
part, and their position at the present day in the
accepted law of nations, showing how far the
doctrines of Grotius have been rejected, and how
far they have prevailed.

SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES.-(Thursday, March 27.)
A. W. FRANKS, ESQ., V.-P., in the Chair.-Mr.
St. John Hope read a paper on the plan of the
cathedral built at Rochester by Bishop Gundulf
after he pulled down Ethelbert's church, which
was too small and, besides, ruinous. The dis-
covery of the foundations of walls in the under-
croft has proved that the choir, which was of con-
siderable length, had a square end, from which
a rectangular chapel projected. A box of bones
was found in the undercroft, perhaps the relics
from some shrine. There was also exhibited a
bronze arm of Irish work, with an Irish inscrip-
tion, dedicated to St. Lachtin.
engraved in Vetusta Monumenta.

FINE ART.

It has been

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should pay a visit. Very suitable for wedding and Christmas presents.

GEO. REES, 115, Strand, near Waterloo-bridge.

That key-stone of archaic art, the Harpy tomb in the British Museum, is allowed four separate plates, and receives a very ample commentary from M. Rayet, his manner, usually trenchant enough when he sees cause, being here mitigated by a sense of admiration, which everyone will approve, for the author of a theory which he finds it necessary to combat. We refer to the theory of Prof. E. Curtius. So also in the commentary on the Demeter of Knidos it is pleasant to find a very genial acknowledgment of the position and We mention these authority of Prof. Brunn. things specially because sometimes it would seem as if M. Rayet were urged by national antipathy in his remarks. One of the most Successful of M. Rayet's reproductions from the British Museum is that of the large

It recalls a little too closely Bastien Lepage, not to ge extremely promising yg Mr. Clausen. The simply who has likewise a measured course, a relief after the to tions of rustic and pastor galleries were flooded when the the taste of a past geneti country-outside the art of Maz -it is not true that "s silvers everything;" so that won: of colour and tone which Mr. Br there is a measure of conve Mr. John Burr's "Politician single figure of unquestioned quently been the case with from the days of Wilkie to the Nicol, it aims at the present the region of caricature, and the

humour; but the humour is

and more notable Italian prints was the beau-founders seem to have erected for an endless
tiful "Music Party" by Domenico Campagnola, duration.
which owes much to the master with whom its
name is associated, and something probably to
the genius of Giorgione. The impression in
Mr. St. John Dent's cabinet was bought for
£42 by M. Danlos, the Parisian dealer.

Mariette covered up again several of the
monuments which he had found, in order to
preserve them from the destructive effect of
rain. Mr. Petrie has already come across one of
them-the inscription of Tirhakah; he will no
doubt find the famous tablet of the year 400,
of which we know only the upper half. It
would be most desirable to have the end of this
important inscription. As Mr. Petrie rightly
observes, Sân is remarkable for the great
amount of substitution, appropriation, and
regal thieving that went on in its temple.
There are some statues where four kings have
inscribed their names without taking the trouble
to erase those of their predecessors. It is
very likely that the first in date of the usurpers
looked at the monuments on the spot, it is hardly
were the Hyksos. After having been at Sân, and
possible to doubt that the so-called Hyksos
monuments are much older than the foreign
invaders, and must be attributed to the XIIIth
or even to the XIIth Dynasty. On the other
hand, the inscription of Pepi of the VIth
Dynasty is certainly a restoration of later date.
It is possible that there was a small sanctuary at
Tanis at this early epoch, but the real founders
of Tanis must have been the Amenemhas and
Userteseus, whom Manetho calls Diospolites,
Thebans (XIIth Dynasty). We do not know
the end of the XIIIth Dynasty, which followed.
It disappears in the great gap of the Hyksos
period, which the excavations at Sân may
possibly help to fill up.

On Monday the Dürers-a very fine collection indeed were parted with, but, though they comprised many things of intellectual interest, there was no rarity of the nature of the Botticelli we have mentioned above. Since then the Rembrandts have been sold. The mention of them brings us to one of the weak points in the collection, which has indeed elsewhere been described, not unjustly, as of a somewhat oldfashioned though of a rich kind. For in his Rembrandts, for example, Mr. St. John Dent revelled in those sacred subjects which-with a was notably deficient. He appears to have few exceptions-can hardly be deemed worthy acter is as true as it is ter to be the prime favourites of the collector of to-day. He had almost no Rembrandt porLudovici's pictures are gener features of the gallery. His traits except a short series of Rembrandt's portraits of himself from youth to mature age. Of Valse" is a bold enough course these are interesting. They include one or prosaic incident of an evening two of the master's finer works; but not to have where most people would seen t the elder Haaring, the Lutma in the first state, and few would seem to be stand the Clément de Jonghe in the first state is his "Fantasia in White," the indeed to abandon the pretension of possessing ment is no longer lacking. S a Rembrandt collection of extraordinary interest form and some grace of design from the point of view of its completeness. a canvas from which the fast Moreover, Rembrandt's landscape art was hues has been avowedly with represented only by one great print, "The Three Trees." Where, one may ask, was the Cottage with White Palings," the "Cottage and Dutch Hay-Barn," and " Rembrandt's Mill," not to speak of yet greater rarities? A weak point in the St. John Dent Collection--we speak always with reference to its admitted fame-was the absence of governing taste in the selection of the examples of some of the greatest masters. Though the curious choice among the etchings of Rembrandt affords the most conspicuous instance of this, the same thing is eleven the interest of the want. noticeable with the Hollars, and even with the Again, of varied with the different days Lukas van Leydens to some extent. been the great day. Then the earlier English masters of line-engraving entrance, of the cultivated fields. It seems to

THE DENT PRINT THE sale of the large and, in important cabinet of prints and Friday last, and has continued 1 has been attended throughout

f Mr. St. John Dent began st

number of connoisseurs-both

i hundred lots have been c

and English and foreign dea

The monuments referring to those dynasties will be specially interesting. A small fragment with a name is sometimes of greater value than a fine statue. In this respect Mr. Petrie has already made an interesting discovery. It is a fragment of a statue belonging to the XIIIth Dynasty, the inscription of which records that the royal son Nehsi (the Negro) erected a monument to Set, the lord of Roahu. Set or Baal is well known as the god of the AegyptoSemitic population of the Delta. Roahu is the name of a region; it means the opening, the

A COLLECTION of choice prints, consisting principally of examples lent by Mr. Tuer to the recent Bartolozzi Exhibition, will be sold shortly by Messrs. Christie.

ACCORDING to the last issue of the Chronique des Arts, the Maspero Fund in Paris amounts to 20,000 frs. (£800). Oddly enough, the French are enquiring to what purposes the money thus subscribed will be applied-a question they might answer for themselves by carefully reading Prof. Maspero's own letter, and by comparing it with his interesting statement read before the Académie des Inscriptions on September 7 of last year, and afterwards published in the October number of the Revue archéologique.

OUR Paris correspondent writes: "Last week a dinner was given to M. Th. Ribot by a group of critics, painters, and amateurs of good painting. M. Bardoux, a former Minister, sketched the modest life of the artist; M. Kaempfen, Director of Fine Arts, spoke of his originality and talent; and M. Fourcaud, the distinguished critic, congratulated him on his independence and on his The ki to the principles he has made his own. M. Th. Ribot replied: Je bois à l'art, puis à l'art que Daubigny, Courbet et Manet.' A medal is to be j'aime, à l'art de nos maîtres-Millet, Corot, struck in commemoration of the banquet, in which all the painters and critics attached to the new school took part."

THE Société internationale de Peintres et

been the of the Italian print and nonttempt ots inadequate representation, indicate that at that time Tanis was a border-Sculpteurs opened its second exhibition at Paris 1 collection has been renowned and no attempt was made to represent at all the land, and that the cultivation did not extend on Tuesday, April 1. THE Société de l'Art ancien en Belgique has was Botticelli's original engar later masters. This last omission, however, farther. As for the royal son, the Negro, we

sumption of the Virgin," which one can understand. It is difficult for the must consider the words "royal son" as a mere been established for the purpose of reproextraordinary scarcity, but w largest collection to be all-comprehensive. But title. The name Nehsi has the determinative ducing, by chromo-lithography and the different present instance of it, of er the singular deficiencies in the representation of of foreigners, and it is curious that a Negro phototypic processes, works of art either of The great print was, indeed, in the masters of old standing have at least to be should so early have attained such a high Belgian origin or actually in Belgian museums brilliant in impression. Very borne in mind if we would think of this collec- dignity. are known of it, though it de tion with impartiality. It is true that Mr. St. happen to be possessed by John Dent appears to have moved upon somemuseums. That is to say it what old-fashioned lines.

Still, there are

the cabinets of the British points in which his collection will remain

Paris Bibliothèque nationale, Museum. An impression, als a Durazzo Collection was sold tr

3at Stuttgart into that of ot of Paris eight years ago. about £420. But, last week was, indeed, been-as

surpassed. M. Thibaudesz a were on Saturday the compe it is now hardly concealed

memorable.

EGYPT EXPLORATION FUND.

THE EXCAVATIONS AT SAN.
Malagny, near Geneva: March 26, 1884.

EDOUARD NAVILLE.

NOTES ON ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY. WE are glad to hear that a memorial is being signed, addressed to Mr. Gladstone, praying that, if the Blenheim collection of pictures be sold, money may not be wanting to secure at least the masterpieces for the National Gallery. THE article on "The State of Art in France," wood's this month, and which has at least as to which the place of honour is given in Blackmuch to do with politics as with art, is written

acting respectively for two managing Arabs which he got at the Pyra- by Mr. J. Beavington Atkinson.

MR. FLINDERS PETRIE is now actively engaged
in excavating the immense field of ruins at Sân.
Owing to his energy and to the practice in
mids, he has overcome in a remarkably short
time the great material difficulties of settling in
the most dreary and desolate place in Egypt,
and of gathering a sufficient number of work-
men in a marshy desert far away from any
place of importance. We may now hope
for a rich harvest of inscriptions. The monu-
ments will very likely be in a bad condi-
tion. There is no place in Egypt where
destruction has been so complete and so un-
merciful as at Sân. It is difficult to conceive
the amount of time and labour that has been
spent on breaking to pieces an edifice made of
enormous blocks of red granite which its

of European collectors-M. Y talloch and M. Dutuit. T Thibaudeau's bid of £360. A is remarked that the work from that painted picture -Sandro Botticelli-which Hamilton Collection into Gallery. A print which d 1 counted on by those who

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on the Catalogue or on the Dent was received as a disa been announced as an e work by Gian Antonio d only £1 12s. Doubtless expected for

THE Council of the Hellenic Society voted £50 last week towards the expenses of Mr. W. M. Ramsay's archaeological exploration in Asia Minor. The Geographical Society had previously granted £100, and another £100 has been raised by private subscription.

MR. AUSTIN DOBSON has in preparation a volume on Thomas Bewick and his Pupils, which will be abundantly illustrated.

MR. JOHN ASHTON, coming down in his history of English satire to more recent times, has nearly ready a work on English Caricatures on Napoleon I. It will be in two volumes, with

or collections.

The first issue for the year 1883-84 consists of seven plates of folio size, accompanied by a brief descriptive text. The phototypes executed at Dresden are excellent of their kind. The objects reproduced are the wellknown ivory plaque of the end of the ninth century on the Book of Gospels at Tongres; another, almost as fine, belonging to the cathedral of Liége, which represents the three miraculous restorations to life wrought by our Saviour and summed up by St. Augustine as "mors in domo, mors in porta et mors in sepulchro;

dral of Namur; and a ewer and basin of the
sixteenth century. Two of the chromo-litho-
graphs reproduce two very remarkable em-
broidered girdle-purses of the fourteenth and
fifteenth century, preserved in the church of
Tongres; another, a selection of nineteen speci-
mens of jewellery, brooches, rings, and pins of
the fifth, sixth, and seventh centuries found in
the Frankish tombs in the province of Namur,
and now forming part of the admirably arranged
collection in the museum of Namur. If this
new society continues as it has begun-and
the names of those who form its council are as
good a guarantee as one could wish for—it will
be of great service to archaeologists.
We see
that the number of copies printed will be strictly
limited to 300.

a fine silver statuette of St. Blaise at the cathe

"taught me to avoid too great abundance of Barnby has been preparing for this perform-ILLUSTRATED MAGAZINE.