7 NOVEMBER 1903, Page 13

A Book of Sundial Mottoes. Compiled by Alfred H. Hyatt,

(Philip Welby. 3s. 6d. net.)—Here we have between four and five hundred mottoes, sometimes with the places given where they are to be seen. The Latin mottoes are translated. Some correction would have been well bestowed. Venio ut Sur (for Fur) ; vent for viret (p. 25) ; enime for minime (p. 26) ; horum for horam (p. 31) ; divedit for dividit (p. 36), are examples which might be not a little increased. Ut Fiji Lucia Incedite is given twice (pp. 29 and 59). One manifest error is "Hose, dies, et vita manet unite vistas." We do not see our way to correct. The word which occupies the space indicated by the dots is fuguint. If a book of this kind is worth doing at all, it is worth doing well.