. The Canadian journal of science, literature and history. mSCRIPTIONES BRITANNIjE LATINyE. 157 to the reputation of the Editor. As it is, however, it is an excellent specimen of what conscientious and painstaking labour can effect; and we cannot refrain from expressing our regret that the credit of collecting and elucidating the Epigraphic remains of the Roman period in Britain is not due to a native of the island. Neither learning, nor wealth, nor patriotism, nor other requisites, one would suppose, were wanting in Great Britain; and yet the honour of initiating and accomplishing a great wor
. The Canadian journal of science, literature and history. mSCRIPTIONES BRITANNIjE LATINyE. 157 to the reputation of the Editor. As it is, however, it is an excellent specimen of what conscientious and painstaking labour can effect; and we cannot refrain from expressing our regret that the credit of collecting and elucidating the Epigraphic remains of the Roman period in Britain is not due to a native of the island. Neither learning, nor wealth, nor patriotism, nor other requisites, one would suppose, were wanting in Great Britain; and yet the honour of initiating and accomplishing a great work for the illustration of a very part of the national antiquities of England and Scotland must be given, in the first place, to the encouragement and patronage of the Prussian Academy of Letters, and in the second, to the industry and self-denial of a German scholar. It is with some satisfaction, however, that we are able to add, that if Berlin is entitled to the credit of issuing the first collection of all the Latin inscriptions found in Britain, Toronto may justly claim the merit of having anticipated even the mother couiitry'^'' in the production of a work exclusively devoted to Britanno-Eoman Epigraphy, and in the first publication of a volume in which some of the chief difficulties of such records of the Boman occupation of the island are critically treated. * We gladly beav testimony to the remarkable interest in the collection and elucidation of national antiquities, as evinced by the many Archffiological Societies established throughout the kingdom, and the numerous articles on such subjects contributed to Journals or Transactions. And yet, so far as we have been able to ascertain, it is an undeniable fact that no separate work on general Latia Epigraphy has been published in any part of the British Empire since Fleetwood's Sylloge in 1691. Nor can we call to mind any scholarly publication even on branches of it except the little books—Wordsworth's Pompeia
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