. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OP KNOW^LLDGB No. 11. NOVEMBER 1920. PRICE 6d. NET. DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Knowledge. Edited by A. S. Russell, , , 4 Moreton Road, Oxford, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. Published by John Murray, 50.^ Albemarle Street, London, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office: 16 Regent Street, London, Annual Subscription, post free, 7s. 6d. Single numbers 6d. net; postage i Jrf. Editorial Notes It is a curious thing that the conventional idea of an archjeologist or
. DISCOVERY A MONTHLY POPULAR JOURNAL OP KNOW^LLDGB No. 11. NOVEMBER 1920. PRICE 6d. NET. DISCOVERY. A Monthly Popular Journal of Knowledge. Edited by A. S. Russell, , , 4 Moreton Road, Oxford, to whom all Editorial Communications should be addressed. Published by John Murray, 50.^ Albemarle Street, London, , to whom all Business Communications should be addressed. Advertisement Office: 16 Regent Street, London, Annual Subscription, post free, 7s. 6d. Single numbers 6d. net; postage i Jrf. Editorial Notes It is a curious thing that the conventional idea of an archjeologist or an antiquary should be exclusively that of a dear old boy with broad-rimmed spectacles and a snuffy waistcoat. Why this should be so is a difficult matter to decide. Some day, doubtless, calculations will be made, at the instance of novel- readers, to estimate the actual percentage of Scots who, in real hfe, have red hair and projecting teeth, and who refer to Sunday as " the Sawbath," or of Welshmen who habitually say " Look you," or of clergymen who behave like the curate in The Private Secretary (or is it Charley's Aunt}), and so on, so that suitable action may be taken against the novelists who persist in generating these types. Doubtless a calcu- lation of the percentage of " tame archaeologists " among real ones will be included in this investigation, and it wiU be interesting to see, when the results appear, what this percentage will turn out to be. Very small, we feel sure. » • • * * Some adventures of real archjeologists' in their work of excavation are described in this simple, ' Dead Towns and Living Men: being pages from an An- tiquary's Notebook. With 24 Ulustrations. By C. Leonard Woolley. (Oxford University Press, 12s. bd.) cheerful, and absorbingly interesting book of Mr. Woolley's. It deals with dead towns and with'men excavating in them who were very much alive. Hamoudi, the native head-foreman of Mr. Woolley's expedition at
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