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440 APPENDIX. sculpture was already printed ; the remains of that art are, however, so scanty that we could not sacrifice one, so we reproduce it here. M. Reinach's report on the explorations made at Carthage in the spring of 1884, in con- junction with M. Babelon, was read before the Acactimie des Inscriptions last October. The objects found have been divided between the Louvre and the National Library. Page 93. Mr. Sayce believes the Cypriot alphabet to be derived from the Hittite hieroglyphs, and the evidence he brings forward gives a certain probability to such a belief. (Transactions of the Society of Biblical Arch- ceology, vol. v., p. 31.) FlG. 367. Terra-cotta mask, profile. Height 4| inches. Page 123. Just as the last sheets of this volume are on their way to press, we hear of the publication of vol. i. of Cesnola's great work, of which the following is the exact title: A descriptive Atlas of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriote Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York ; by Louis P. di Cesnola, LL.D., Director of the Museum. With an Introduction by Ernst Curtius, of Berlin. 3 vols. Boston, J. B. Osgood & Co. (a large folio; price 150 dollars). Page 142. On the question as to the sex of the figures dressed in drawers widely open in front, General di Cesnola writes to us : "I am not of your opinion on this matter, and for this reason : the drawers now worn by Cypriote women have no buttons at all, but are gathered about the