A Restoration of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus. By J. J.
Stevenson. (B. T. Batsford. 23. 61.)—Several attempts have been made at restoring the mausoleum. Most of these have naturally not gone further than the hands of the draughtsman. But Hawksmoor, a pupil of Sir Christopher Wren, had the good fortune—if it was so—of being able to try his hand on an actual building. He produced the church of St. George's, Bloomabury. He had to work by Pliny's description. The building itself was supposed to have wholly disappeared. But we have since Hawks- moor's time learnt much about it, and found some of the actual remains. Mr. Stevenson's restoration, which he did not live to revise, is presented in a drawing reproduced from the original given by him to the British Museum. The pyramid is smaller than has been commonly supposed, and the building from which it rises larger. The former is calculated at thirty-seven feet six inches as against the sixty-three of earlier conjectures. The platform on the top is eighteen feet six inches square, the four-horse chariot with the statue of Mausolus standing fifteen feet. One interesting fact is that the accuracy of Pliny's details is satisfactorily proved.
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