Mr. Alfred Watkins has done a very useful piece of
work in producing an account of The Old Standing Crosses of Hereford- shire (Simpkin Marshall, 10s.), with no fewer than 142 excel- lent photographs taken by himself. One knew that his county was rich in antiquities, but the number of crosses which he has noted is surprising. Too many were mutilated at the Reforma- tion or during the Civil War, but the remains are none the less of great interest. Mr. Watkins touches briefly on his theory that standing stones were often, if not always,- set up to mark routes, or to connect one sacred place with another. But the little book is in the main a workmanlike description, well indexed, of the crosses or stones that remain. The Bishop of Hereford contribLites a preface to the work, which is issued on behalf of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club at Hereford, of Which The Bishcip the president.- - - -
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