LYDNEY PARK appears to be the property of the Bathursts, having been purchased by Mr. Benjamin Bathurst in 1723, so the remains found there have been mostly disinterred under the superintendence of different members of the family in successive generations, and then carefully drawn and described by them. “When the Roman constructions in Lydney Park,” the editor tells us in the preface, “were first regularly explored, at the beginning of this century, the Right Hon. C. Bathurst, after taking accurate plans and drawings of the several rooms as they successively came to light, composed a detailed description, in two parts, of the Villa and the Temple.” The whole appears to have been found too long and too discursive for publication; so the late Mr. Bathurst, whose name appears on the title-page, “prepared, with great care not to omit any really important particulars, a summary of both these manuscript memoirs; and this forms the text of the volume now printed.” But in addition to the papers left by the elder Bathurst, “his daughter, Miss Charlotte Bathurst, had drawn up a descriptive catalogue of coins, selected for their special interest or beauty of condition from amongst the immense quantity found in the course of the excavations,” This list Mr. King found “upon examination to exhibit such accurate knowledge of numismatics, coupled with such intelligence in the selection of the pieces,” that he has published it without any important alteration; and so far as one can learn from the present volume the Bathursts deserve great credit for this enlightened appreciation of the archaeological treasure which had fallen to their lot. But the reader must not be left to conclude that the whole of it has passed through their hands, for Mr. Bathurst says that “Major Rooke, who published some account of this carnp in the ‘Archæologia,’ v. 207, in 1777, was frequently at Lydney, and was allowed to dig wherever he was inclined. Others also were in the habit of searching for coins and other antiquities, and taking them away.” Then there has been the usual quarrying for building-stone with the usual result of materially damaging the old pavements, which seem to have still further suffered from a search for iron ore in the limestone of which the hill is composed, on which the camp stood. Roman Antiquities at Lydney Park, Gloucestershire. Being a Posthumous Work of the Rev. William Hiley Bathurst, M.A., with Notes by C. W. King., Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Pp. vii., 127; Plates xxxi., quarto. (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1879.)