The Reliquary and Illustrated Archmologist. Edited by J. Romilly Allen.
(Bemrose and Sons.)—This is the first volume of a new series of this quarterly We may quote, as giving a summary of the objects to which it is directed, the following des- cription :—" Early Pagan and Christian Antiquities of Great Britain, Mediaeval Architecture and Ecclesiology ; the Develop- ment of the Arts and Industries of Man in the Past Ages ; and the Survivals of Ancient Usages and Appliances in the Present." Among the contents of the volume before us is the " Burning of the Clavie at Burghead," a relic of Baal-worship, according to the writer,—" nature-worship " might have been a better phrase ; " Dene Holes," the " Clachan Truseil," near Barvas in the Lows - with other antiquities in the Hebrides, obituaries, records of , antiquarian discovery, and other items The illustrations are a notable feature. We wish the Reliquary all success.
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