House Mottoes and Inscriptions, Old and New. By S. F.
A. Caulfeild. (Elliot Stock. 5s.)—Mrs. Caulfeild has collected a considerable masa of material here, and made thereby a contribu- tion of no little value to what may be called " house-lore." Some improvements might have been made. We cannot discern any principles in the arrangement of the English counties. Why not an alphabetical order? Then the Latin would have been the better for a little correction. Tardi should be garde (p. 23); coga, cogo (p. 24) ; mangv,a,M, nunquam (ib.) ; similam, sistiLan (p. El) ; tolerari, toleravi (p. 33) ; un, ut (p. 35) ; mirabi/is, (p. 88); civitos, eivitas (p. 55) ; liedas, laedas, and deaecras, deseeres (p. 68). Vito asulso non deficit alter is not from Horace but from Virgil. We do not see the beautiful inscription on a house-porch Pair intranti on the outer side, Salmi eveunti on the inner.
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