Local Records
Oxford—the Shire not the University—has been quoted as giving a lead to the counties in the matter of preserving and making available county records. Its next door neighbour Berkshire, (which is as many fathoms deep in history as Sussex or Kent or Wiltshire, or Hampshire) has organised a singularly elaborate and thorough scheme for preserving not only written but oral and other records. Every village has its archaeo- logical correspondent and watcher, so to say, who is asked to send up to the central authority any valuable local infor- mation; and is given no fewer than eighty heads under which this information may be grouped. The counties differ very widely in their care for the preservation of local history ; and there is no doubt that Sussex takes the lead in the present- ation of its lore through its charming County Magazine. W. BEACH THOMAS.
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