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    Dec. 3t > r88$ The Publishers' Circular ...

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    +O« Sweden In Heathen Times.*

    made antiquarianism ludicrous are almost

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    has restricted arisen a and disjointed d and coherent observation science , of there - _ P granAA BH K A pre * ^ ^_> _ _»_ ^ ^^_

    of historic ^ man ' s research life and , b work y which on the earth earliest are traced signs

    down to the time when recorded history begins . ¦ ¦ Very i few ~— — - ™ pr will p » pr ^^»^^—^^ ¦ ^ now ^ pt ^^ b * ~ bb > - - cavil ~^ v ^^ --w v ^ pbbb against ^^^^' . ^ bIbm ^ b ^^ pb-bb » *¦>¦ bb * p ^ bb' ^ p' the ^^ bbb ^^^ b * ^ bbj truths ^^ "Ppp ^^ pp * ^ bb' ^^ pibbb' p ^ bF ^ of ^ bb- bbb "

    Iron the * three are almost age system as typ / ical Stone of the , Bronze birth , and and

    progress of civilisation as are the written history of nations and dynasties in modern

    belongs times WV * V ** . M The to V ^* r Christian V / honour IA ^ JWVXCVAA of Jiirgensen ^ - » lAigVAAOVM developing Thomsen JL this lAVAUUVUf system , a « JV

    Dane , who died in 1865 . ' In our own country Sir John Lubbock and Professor David Wilson

    have rendered signal service in the same direction . The latter ' s ' Prehistoric Annals of Scotland ¦ l —¦ ' is one of the b mos bbbf t stimul bb bb atin ¦ bBb g

    books of ~™~ —~ its ^ - ^ ^ - ~— - ^ bp 1 kind —~ ~~ ™ . ^^ *^™~ ~— ^^^» ~ " ~ " ^ p ^»^™ ™ ^»^^»^^™ ~^~ p ^ pa" ^^ w ^ ^ B" ^^^ " ^^ " ^ bbpbbt ^»^» ™ ' ^ '' * b ^ ^ bb »^^^ ^^^ k ^ H ^^ L Scandinavia is the chief field of this branch

    of inquiry . In the British Isles , Orkney is perhaps its most fertile spot . The book before

    necessaril us is entirel yfor y devoted comparison to 's Sweden sakeillustrations , ¦ though ,

    are gathered - — . ^^ , ^— from — - — ¦ oth — er — countries " ' " ^ ^ " ^ . , J Professor ^ ^* " ^^^ ™^^ b » Bp ^ ^^ V ™ b ^ PPvp * Montelius bbb «» pbbbhp b" b ^ pbb * * ^ bb ^ ^^—^ mmt b ^ bbp ^ pbbb * — bbbtp asks » bbbbP 1 pHa *^^ pb *^* p : » 'Is bb ^ . p > ^ qr ^ not ^ . bib * ^ ir bb ^ bt the w ^ B ^ PB ^^ mr knowled ^ m ^ v ^ h ^^ . ^^ r w w b ^™ ^ p ^ ^*^ " ™ ge v ^^ h ^^ m ^ of ^ bb * ' p ^ m the ^ v ava ^ L *^^^

    people ' s life , and of the progress of their cul- tureof more worth than the names of saga

    heroes , 1 And ought we not to give mpre credence to the contemporary ¦ ih ¦ BV ¦ ¦ irrefutable h i h ~ pBV ^ BBB | VBBPjTBBnBVBBBf

    witnesses — — - — _ to — — — which — — —^ m ~ - alone - - -aB" — archaeology - ™~ — —^— B ^ ^ B > * BJp * now ; ~ VBBp listens - - — — —— — , than - ~ -r ^—— - ^— - — ^— to - ^^ ^^ " — the - ™~ ^—~ ¦ —— poetical BB — " - ^ B * " ^^^ ^^» ^—— - - ^^ r ^^ ^^ - ^—^ stories I ¦ ¦ i" ^^^ ^^^ ^^^^ " ^^^ which W « ^^^ ^^ B ^^ i ^ ^^^ T ^^ V ^^ B ^ for ^ V ^^^^^ V ^ .

    centuries of Skalds were ? ' Deep preserve ly imbued d only with in the this memory idea

    setting aside romance and working with , realitythe author has raised a fabric of

    , streng a ' th a AM in A the > ^ K domain ^ H ^ of ^^ archaeology ^^ ^^ . His Iu _^___ examples and reasoning are alike convincing .

    No arrangement departure of has the been book made which in regard like its to pre the

    s t ecessors one — , _ of -, br - — , onze treat —— — — , j - s and ¦ - con — — of - ~ secutivel — — — iron i ¦¦¦ , . - ^— ¦ How y of long the —* - ^^ p ^ h w Sweden ages ^ a ^ » w " ^^ v ^ ^^ of " ^ * . »^»»

    has been inhabited cannot be determined even within a thousand yearsbut that is a trifle to

    arc of h miles aeolog are ists , to much astronomers in the , same . All way that as millions can be

    time done , before as our which author it says would , is be to impossible fix a point for of

    humanity end of the to Glacial exist . "Period Speculation as the suggests possible the

    beperiod ginning of when human firs settlement were the . prevailing At a very trees early

    Southern , Sweden and Denmark were inhabited , by people of the Stone Age . Metals and their

    uses were then presumably unknown . The 6

    (¦ i finds' in the Kjokkenmdddirwfer ( EZitchen- \ ,

    mitive middens life ' ) afford of man strong in these evidences northern of the lands pri- . \

    Professor Montelius has collected and described many examples of the weapons and

    utensils of this period . Like those found in other countriesthe axesdaggersarrow-heads

    hammersand , so forth , show , a marvellous , degree of , skill in workmanshi , pand even

    taste in desi , On beginning gn . the subject of the Bronze

    of Age the , Professor oriin of Montelius the knowled does not of metals say much in gge

    hav Scandinavia e been . more Perhap extensivel s this question discussed mi and ght y

    the actions of the Phoenicians and Etruscans , weighed . The leading savants of this country

    g was ive broug credit ht to b the y these former pioneers , and of say learning that the and tin

    commerce from Spain and South Britain . But this is debateable ground which our

    author wisely avoids . The account of the ' Iron Age' fills nearly a half of the volume

    and may be considered its most interesting , part . It is assumed that this age , in heathen

    the times latter , lasted half from of the the eleven fifth century th century B . C . a , , d to .

    author * For the the anti Iron quarian A ' s in purposes Sweden , ' ends says with the ge

    v the victory , of Christianity over the Asa gods . ' Mosi of the useful meilals in this period

    became and ornam known ents in to iron the , peop silver le , , brass and imp , lead lements , & c ,

    becam duced e and familiar the . -knowled Stamped ge coins of soldering were intro and

    reminded gilding « . ^« , metal of was that acquired most difficult . Here subj , too ect , we the are —¦¦ " ¦—

    ^^ M ^^ ^ hi ^ . . ^^ . ^ . v ^^ H > ^^ . ^ 1 ^^^ ^ i ^^ ^^ P ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^ b ^ t ^ ^^^^ ^^^^ . » ^ . ^^ ^» - ^^ ° — — — — — — — - - — p ~ — — , -m — " ^ runes earliest . al Much phabetical valuable symbols information of Scandinavia is w lied — ^ «^ ^ r w ^ f ^^ ^^^ 9 ^ B ^ v ^^^^ ^* s ^ ^ t ^ ^ H . ^^ m ^ ^*^^^^^ ^^ ' ^^ ^^^» r *^ r ^^» ^^^ - ¦ ^^ v ^^ ^^^ ' ¦ — — ^ ^^ ^—¦ ^ supp ^ " ^ — ^ - — ¦— ¦« — ^ ^

    in this connection . The development of the smith ' s craft is followed with care . Weapons w

    P ornamen ^^ Adb * ^ te ^^^ hd » f ^^ - ^^ t ^^ s ^^^^ fc ^ household ^ ^^^^^ ^* t ^^ ^^^^ *^ - V w - ^^ utensil mm ^ - v ^— — « sand — - all indeed - — - —— — - ^ ^— - — , v that pertain , s to the temporal , use of man , , are ,

    described with a due regard to method and accuracyshowing how art and mechanical

    skill marched , hand in hand . The perusal of books such as this gives a

    new interest to the records of experiences of modern bJV travellers mw mm FBw B .. ^ p * " ^ F i . V ^ B P in B 1 B little ¦^^¦¦ " ^ P pi ^ p » ^^ - # r known ^^ ' - ^ ¦ p ^ iw ^^— ~ - ^ - ^ lands ^^ ^^ ^^ ¦ ^^ ' * ^^ — ^ those ^— ^^ ' ~— — ^^ ^ ^¦^^^ g ^^ j ^^^^ ^^^^^ ^_^ ^^^ . ^^ . ^^*^¦^^ ' ^^^^ ^ . ^^ ^^ . ^ ^^^*^ . **^ ^ . ^^ ^ . ^^

    ances ¦ who have tors seen lived the in Bbb peop primitiv b le b liv e e simp , as licity our r . We te

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    accessibl wor Pf kand e to in Eng archaeolog lish readers ical h . interest It is a couW solid

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    tions are beautifully executed .

    Dec. 3t > R88$ The Publishers' Circular ...

    Dec . 3 t > r 88 $ The Publishers' Circular t ^ f I

    In Presenting Our Annual Summary And Ana...

    In presenting our annual summary and analysis of the titles of books issued during the year that has just gone by , we find ourselves summing up a period of great activity in

    production . Heligious books , both new works and new editions , show a considerable advance in numbers . School books—which class , in our table , includes editions of the classics , and

    treatises on the science of language—show a similarly large increase . Juvenile works appear to have been produced in less number than in the preceding year , but this may be only an

    apparent decrease . For , now-a-days , books addressed to young people in the shape of stories are so admirably written and illustrated that grown-up persons are glad to read them , and it

    is often difficult for one who has a book of this kind before him to determine whether it should ||

• Citation
  • Publishers’ Circular (1880-1890), Dec. 31, 1888, page 1797, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/pc/issues/tec_31121888/page/5/