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THE “Papers of the British School at Rome,” while similar in format, are not similar in form to the “Annals of the British School at Rome,” nor can they be precisely similar in content, since the pleasure of chronicling the results of actual excavations is denied to the director of the British School at Rome. Let us always gratefully recognise the greater liberality of the Hellenic authorities and the greater tolerance of the Greek archaeologists, who, while naturally and rightly desirous of keeping Greek antiquities in Greece, at the same time recognise the fact that the antiquities of classic Greece and Rome are the heritage of the whole civilised world, not of one country alone, and admit that the privilege of searching for them should be freely extended to all who have the money and the will to carry out the work. Some dav, perhaps, the Italians will do likewise. Until then, British archaeologists in Italy are confined to the contemplative life, and can do little more than write papers of the type presented in the volume under review.
Papers of the British School at Rome.
Vol. iv. Pp. x + 296; illustrated. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1907.) Price 31s. 6d. net.
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H., H. Papers of the British School at Rome . Nature 77, 532 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/077532a0
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