16 FEBRUARY 1889, Page 26

We welcome the appearance of the eighteenth half-yearly volume of

the Antiquary (Elliot Stock), " a magazine devoted to the study of the past." It contains, as usual, much curious and interesting matter, notes on parish registers, experiences of early travellers (we have, for instance, the narrative of Mr. Thomas Dallans, who in 1598 carried a present of an organ from Queen Elizabeth to the Sultan), folk-lore, discoveries at excavations, and many other things which it would be difficult to classify. We wish the Antiquary all prosperity.