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London, Two portentous looking volumes of over John Murray, 1878. 1,200 pages crammed with information conThis—the eighth edition of a popular work cerning the ancient home of the Etruscans first published somewhat more than thirty from Pistoia to Veii, and from Gubbio to years ago—is the first edition which has been Elba, illustrated with several scores of illustrated. The book is written in the true woodcuts large and small, but all good, and spirit of an observant field naturalist, and a couple of dozen maps and plans most carenever fails to interest every boy who manifests fully executed. The progress made in any inclination to observe the ways of the Etruscan archæology since 1848, when the animals about him. The illustrations, seventy first edition of this work was published, has in number, are engraved by Mr. J. W. long rendered a second edition of this Whymper, after the designs of Messrs. Harrison wonderfully erudite work a necessity for Weir, A. C. Corbould, A. H. Collins, and antiquarian students. Mr. Dennis's official A. T. Elwes. They are well executed, and labours, however, have not hitherto allowed from their appropriateness to the text are calcu him sufficient leisure to continue the researches lated to add increased popularity to the book. necessary for the prosecution of his task until There are charming sketches of the habits of nu- the present time, nearly a third of a century merous forms of beasts, birds, fishes, and reptiles. from the date of his first edition. Be this as The chapters on poaching, salmon fishing, the it may, we must be thankful for the gift which, otter, dogs, foxes, deer, and deer-stalking, and although somewhat tardy in arriving, has the the badger, are capital specimens of stirring merit of giving us all that is known on the yet accurate narrative. There is no index, but subject down almost to the day of publication. its absence is in part compensated for by a The additions to the first edition are the table of contents and cross-headings on the result of four tours made in Italy, since pages with odd numbers. | 1873, amongst the many long-forgotten sites |