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NOTICES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS. and we heartily wisli Messrs. Billing and Burn every success. No one unacquainted with the difficulties attendant on the production of a work of such magnitude as this, can form an idea of the amount of labour, cost, and 'lautallou Castle. perseverance, demanded ; and if the portion already published be taken as a sample of the remainder, the authors will be justly entitled to a fair return both of credit and remuneration. MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE GREEKS; Translated from the Geiman of Thf.odore Panofka; with Illustrations by George Scharf, taken chiefly from Greek Fictile Vases. London. 4to. Newby, 1849. Pp. 40. Plates XXI. We feel peculiar pleasure in introducing this novel and elegant work to the notice of our English readers, inasmuch as without the proof derivable from its interesting and varied contents, it might appear to those who have confined their studies and researches to the antiquities of our own country, that all knowledge of the manners and customs of the ancient Greeks, from pictorial representations of the time, must necessarily long since have entirely passed away, and been lost. Tt would not by any means be an unnatural conclusion, without a knowledge of Greek antiquities, that a darkness similar to that which veils from us any trace of the state of Britain