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Gnomic Poetry in Anglo-Saxon. Edited by Blanche C. Williams. (H.

Milford. 6s. 6d. net.)—This monograph, which contains 12 pages of text and 159 of introduction, notes, and glossary, deals with the Exeter and Cotton gnomes. It is well up to the high standard of the Columbia University "Studies in English and Comparative Literature."