The Buried Cities of Etruria. By W. H. Davenport Adams.
(Nelson.) —The compiler has taken considerable pains with this book, consulting the chief authorities on the subject, and not omitting to give the results of the latest researches. Altogether he has produced a fairly readable and useful volume. He overloads it indeed with sentiment, and be does not apparently possess the advantage of a very intimate acquaint- ance with the Latin language. There are some annoying mistakes, far some of which the anther is evidently responsible. It may be the printer's fault that we have "I, peer, et strigilis Crispi ad Balnea defer,' instead of I, puer, et strigiles Crispini ad Balnea defer ;" but the author alone must be credited with the statement that °elms calls "a dry sweat" sudutione assas, or with such strange remarks as that wool was the only material used for clothing at the time of the destruction of Pompeii, or that the Romans had very little of what "we British" call home life.
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