Mr. E. M. Barry On Architecture.

Avhich were but lately the exclusive privileges of the few , to investigate the architecture of their predecessors in every land ; but while they are studying the art of others they must not forget the dictates of common sense and the special needs of their own age and country .

Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART .

BX BED . GEOBGE JVIAEKHAM : TWEDEELIJ . Author of " Shakspere , his Times and Contemporaries , " " The Bards and Authors of Cleveland and South Durham , " " Tlie People ' s History of Cleveland and its Vicinage , " " The Visitor ' s Handbook to Redcar , Coatham , and Saltburn by the Sea , " " The History of the Stockton ami Darlington Railway , " etc ., etc ..

r TVHE Postal Telegraph Service in the United Kingdom delivered upwards of two - * - hundred and fifty millions of Avords of news , to various newspapers , clubs , newsrooms , and similar institutions , during the year ending with March , 1878 . Mr . Frederick Ross , an industrious and able author , Fellow of the Royal Historical Society , and Member of the English Dialect Society , who for upwards of twenty years has been busy as a bee in collecting materials for a Biographical Dictionary of Yorkshire ( for which I am able to vouch he has made a very valuable collection ) ,

principally culled in the Library of the British Museum , has published Avhat I may call a chip from the large block , under the title of Celebrities of the Yorkshire Wolds . The work is remarkably neatly got up , and does great credit to the printer , Mr . T . Holderness , of the Driffield Observer . " Every district of country has its hei ' oes and men of renoAvn ; its divines , philosophers , and poets "—as Mr . Ross truly tells us—" a line extending backwarduntil lost in the misty haze of the remote past . " But every

, district is not fortunate enough to have a Frederick Ross to do for it what he has done for the Yorkshire Wolds in the excellent volume before me . " The tract of country so called ( formerly York Wold ) , " remarks our author , " is situated in the East Riding of the county , and consists of ranges of chalk hills with intervening depressions , extending from Flambrough Head toAvards Pocklington and Market Wei ghton , and sloping down

hence to the Huinber near Welton ; and from the north of Beverley to Malton , whence commences the rise of the more elevated hills of Cleveland . Many of the higher points command magnificent prospects—eastward , of the German Ocean , Flambrough Head and Li ghthouse , and the Priory Church of Bridlington ; north Avestward , of the Vale of York and York Minster ; southward , of the flat expanse of Holderness , the majestic Humber , Beverley Minster , and the churches of Hull and Hedon . " And he reminds us that " Wold is a Saxon Avordsignifying a treelessbleakunprotected upland ; and

, , , such were the characteristic features of the district until the present century , Avhen it was brought under cultivation and planted to some extent with trees ; " and IIOAV its " multitude of barrows and tuinuli , scattered over the hills , indicate a numerous population at a very remote period , reaching far doAvn into the pre-historic ages , when the use of metal was unknown , and sharpened flints supplied Aveapons of AA'ar and agricultural implements . " But it is not of the pre-historic period that Mr . Ross has essayed

to treat . And yet his " Celebrities " commence at an earl y date , and are continued to the present time . It is evident that if the Wolds have been barren of timber , they have not been wanting " at any period of our history in those good and gifted men who are alike the strength and ornament of the nation that produces them ; and great must