This curious document affords an additional proof how much ancient life is found to resemble the modern, when we gain an insight into its interior through the medium of its monuments. By this means institutions and customs which have been thought peculiar to recent or mediæval times may be traced upwards, through Rome and Greece, even to the fountains of civilization in Egypt and the East. THE END. Woodfall and Kinder, Printers, Angel Court, Skinner Street, London. The ground on which the Museum, Library, and Lecture-Theatre, with the Botanic Garden and Observatory, of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society stand, was originally covered by the monastic buildings of the abbey of St. Mary. In a portion of the same buildings was established the court and palace of the Lord President of the Council of the North. The tyrannical proceedings of this Council, especially under the presidency of the Earl of Strafford, had a great share in bringing about the fate both of the Earl himself and his royal master. This remarkable succession of occupancy suggested the following inscription, in which it may be observed that it is to monkery, not to the religion of the Middle Ages universally, that the epithet in the ninth line is applied. QUO· PRIMUM· LOCO COENOBIUM· BEATÆ· VIRGINIS· MARIÆ DEINDE· PROCURATORIS· REGII· PALATIUM· STETIT COMITATUS EBORACENSIS HAS· ÆDES· COLLATA· PECUNIA· EXSTRUCTAS OMNIUM· DISCIPLINARUM· STUDIIS· DICAVIT. TU· QUI· LEGIS· AGNOSCE NOSTRI· SÆCULI· FELICITATEM QUO· ANIMIS· HOMINUM· SUPERSTITIONE· LIBERATIS TYRANNORUM· VIOLENTIA· LEGIBUS· FRÆNATA HARUM· IPSIS· IN· SEDIBUS· LICUIT· PHILOSOPHIÆ DOMICILIUM· SUUM· COLLOCARE. PUBLICATIONS BY THE REV. JOHN KENRICK. AN ESSAY ON PRIMÆVAL HISTORY. _Price 5s._ Ambagibus ævi Obtegitur densa caligine mersa vetustas. SILIUS ITALICUS. ANCIENT EGYPT UNDER THE PHARAOHS. _2 Vols. 8vo. Price 30s._ [Greek: Ariprepeôn genos andrôn, Hoi prôtoi biotoio diestêsanto keleuthous, Prôtoi d' himeroentos epeirêsanto arotrou, Prôtoi de grammêsi polon diemetênrêsanto, Thymô phrassamenoi loxon dromon êelioio.] DIONYSII _Periegesis_, 232. PHOENICIA. _1 Vol. With Maps and Illustrative Plates. Price 16s._ Phoenices, solers hominum genus et ad belli pacisque munia eximium; literas et literarum opera aliasque etiam artes, maria navibus adire, classe confligere, imperitare gentibus commenti.--POMP. MELA, I. 12. LONDON: T. FELLOWES, LUDGATE STREET. FOOTNOTES: [1] The tomb of the Scipios on the Appian Way was discovered in the year 1780, and its inscriptions have been illustrated by the two Viscontis. They are now in the Vatican. The oldest of them, that of L. C. Scipio Barbatus, is of the beginning of the third century B.C. [2] See Proceedings of Yorkshire Philos. Society, vol. i. p. 53. [3] Hieronym. ad Es. 7, 14. Augustin Tract. 15 in Evang. Joann.