Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts of the British Museum.
(Longman and Co., and others. 80s.)—This volume contains the additions made to the MSS. Department during the years 1900-5. It is not possible to give more than the numbers, for the subjects show a quite indescribable variety. The first is a collection by Sir It Ellis of "Prices and Expenditure in England" from 883 to 1762 ; the next, three private reports to Lord Strangford, Ambassa- dor at Constantinople, from his dragomans ; the fifth an index of places mentioned in " Risdon's Devonshire, Part IL" The MSS., then, number nine hundred and thirty-four ; but many of. the items include many separate documents. The last item (3,232), for instance, is subdivided into sections a—x ; and these sections mostly contain more documents than one. Then follow the Egerton manuscripts ; additional charters and rolls ; detached seals ; papyri (some of these have been published in Messrs. Grenfell and Hunt's " Oxyrhynchus Papyri ") ; "Facsimiles of MSS." A copious index is added.—Another publication by the Trustees of the British Museum is The Sculptures and Inscription of Darius the Great at Behistan (the same). These exceedingly interesting remains of antiquity (first mentioned by Diodorus Siculus) were systematically studied by Sir Henry Rawlinson in 1835-37 and 1844. It was necessary to complete his work, and this was done in 1904 by Mr. L. T. King, assisted by Mr. R. C. Thompson. Here we have an account of these gentlemen's labours. dimen- sions of the sculptures, &c., photographs of the rock and the various objects, facsimiles of figures, and the text of the inscription with translations.
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