A CATALOGUE OF ANCIENT MARBLES IN GREAT BRITAIN, by Prof. ADOLF MICHAELIS. Translated by C. A. M. FENNELL, Litt. D. Royal 8vo. Roxburgh (Morocco back), £2. 2_s._ THE LITERARY REMAINS OF ALBRECHT DÜRER, by W. M. CONWAY. With Transcripts from the British Museum MSS., and Notes by LINA ECKENSTEIN. Royal 8vo. Buckram, 21_s._ (_The Edition is limited to 500 copies._) THE WOODCUTTERS OF THE NETHERLANDS during the last quarter of the Fifteenth Century. In 3 parts. I. History of the Woodcutters. II. Catalogue of their Woodcuts. III. List of Books containing Woodcuts. By W. M. CONWAY. Demy 8vo. 10_s._ 6_d._ London: C. J. CLAY AND SONS, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, AVE MARIA LANE. NOTES. [1] See pages 97 and 113. [2] See _Jour. Hell. Stud._ Vol. III. p. 112. [3] It was not till quite a late period that the word [Greek: biblos] was used to mean another form of book than the roll. The word [Greek: sanis] is also used for a tablet; see p. 30. [4] A fine set of five tablets is preserved in the coin room in the Paris Bibliothèque Nationale; see _Revue Archéol._ VIII. p. 461. [5] A well-preserved example of Roman _pugillares_ formed of two leaves of ivory, now in the Capitoline museum in Rome, is illustrated by Baumeister, _Denkmäler_, I. p. 355. [6] Lucian, who lived in the second century A.D., mentions (_Vita Luc._ II.) that when he was a boy he was in the habit of scraping the wax off his writing-tablets and using it to model little figures of men and animals. Probably he was not the only Roman school-boy who amused himself in this way. [7] Charcoal or crayon-holders of bronze with a spring clip and sliding ring, exactly like those now used, have been found in Pompeii. These and other writing materials are illustrated by Baumeister, _Denkmäler_, Vol. III. p. 1585. [8] An Athenian inscription (_C. I. A._ I. 32) mentions accounts and other documents written on [Greek: pinakia kai grammateia]. [9] See, for example, a relief on the sarcophagus of a _scriba librarius_ or library curator which is illustrated by Daremberg and Saglio, _Dict. Ant._ I. p. 708. The scribe is represented seated by his book-case _armarium_, on the shelves of which both _volumina_ and _codices_ are shown. [10] The ancient method of manufacturing papyrus paper is described below, see page 22. [11] Some very interesting fragments of the _Antiope_ of Euripides have been brought to England by Mr Flinders Petrie, and have been edited by Dr Mahaffy in a collection entitled _The Flinders Petrie Papyri_, Dublin, 1892. [12] The book-market in Athens was called [Greek: ta biblia], i.e. [Greek: hou ta biblia ônia]; see Pollux IX. 47. Lucian, in his treatise _Adversus Indoctum_, gives an interesting account of the Greek book-buyers and book-sellers in his time; see § 1 and § 4.