10 JANUARY 1903, Page 23

Ancient Coffers and Cupboards. By Frederick Roe. (Methuen and Co.

43 3s. net.)—This is a handsome volume, the nature and contents of which we can but very briefly indicate to persons interested in the subject. It deals with these relics "from the earliest times to the middle of the sixteenth century." By "earliest times" we must understand a period comparatively modern. We do not go back, for instance, to the chest of Cypselus, but to an Anglo-Saxon casket to be seen in the British Museum. Mr. Roe has spent an infinitude of pains in studying his subject, and we hope that he will reap his reward in the gratitude of persons interested.