Papers of the British School at Rome. Vol. VI. (Macmillan
and Co. 42s. net.)—Great variety of subject-matter distinguishes as usual the new volume of essays issued by the British School at Rome. The questions discussed in the several papers range in time from the prehistoric period to the eighteenth century. Among them we may mention a detailed report of the excava- tions made during 1908-11 in the megalithic buildings in Malta, and an important account by Miss E. Jamison of the Norman Administration of Apulia and Capua, especially from 1127 to 1166.—No less interesting are the papers contained in The Annual of the British School at Athens. No. XVIII. (Same Publishers. 25s. net.)—Of these we can only draw attention to a discussion by Mr. M. N. Tod of the epigraphical evidence as to the Greek method of numerical representation, and a curious series of transcriptions into modern musical notation by Mr. H. J. W. Tillyard of some of the "acclama- tions" with which the Byzantine emperors were greeted on great ceremonial occasions.
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