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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. Page 7, note. To the list that Professor Ramsay has published upon the antiquities of Phrygia, should be added the memoir entitled, " A Study of Phrygian Art" (in Hell. Studies, vol. ix. pp. 350-380; vol. x, pp. 147-189). This essay is not yet the realization of the wish expressed by us, to the effect that Professor Ramsay should undertake a complete description of that district ; for we find in it no more than remarks upon matters of detail, thrown out as they suggested themselves to the mind of the author. The first part is taken up with a disquisition upon the ethnic affinities of the Phrygians, their entrance into Asia Minor, the history of the state they founded, and the origins of their art. Professor Ramsay's ideas coincide, in the main, with those I have expressed. He then supplements the account contained in former papers with regard to several monuments, such as the Broken Tomb, the Lions' Tomb, Midas city, and he touches upon the relations between Phrygian and Mycenian art, a question of vital interest for archaeology. The second part is little more than a critical review, a kind of errata, of that portion of our history dealing with the monuments referred to above. According to Professor Ramsay, it would appear that we have not always grasped the drift of the documents he forwarded to us. Whilst acknowledging once more his liberality, we must remind him of the state of the drawings he placed at our disposal, incomplete as they were, fragmentary and often contradicting one another. Besides photographs and drawings already published, we had to choose, for the same monument, between two or three sketches made at different times by the professor himself, Mrs. Ramsay, or M. Wilson, during the various visits they paid to the monuments. To select from among these sketches, accompanied by very succinct notes, was not by any means an easy task. We think that, all things considered, we did the best that could be expected under the circumstances. Professor Ramsay points out some few mistakes. His remarks appear to us to bear, for the most part, upon details of very trifling im- portance ; and in the impossibility of comparing the two sets of pictures, it is often difficult to make out wherein the discrepancy lies. It seems to us that, could they be placed side by side, the difference complained of would very often go undetected. Consult also, by the same, " Syro-Cappadocian Monuments in Asia Minor " (Mittheilungen des k. d. Arches. At/ten, torn. xiv. pp. 170-191). It will be quite a business for future bibliographs to collect the valuable papers which Professor Ramsay has scattered up and down in more publications than can be counted on one's fingers. Great economy of labour would have been effected had he thought fit to bring them out in book form ! Page 8, note i. In his recent work Professor Ramsay adduces fresh and convincing data in support of his conjecture as to the Ionian origin of the Phrygian alphabet (Journal, vol. x. pp. 186-189).