Bandy - Book of Rules and _Tables for Verifying Dates. By John
J. Bond, Assistant-Keeper of the Public Records. (Bell and Daldy.)— Everybody who has had anything to do with dates is aware of the con- fusion that is occasioned by the distinction between the legal and the ordinary year.which lasted from A.D. 1155 to A.D. 1752; and, again, by the difference of the Gregorian and Julian calendars, which divided Roman Catholics and Protestant mankind for various periods, and even
in our own day secludes Greek Russia from the rest of the world. Mr.
Bond has determined that the temper of the historical student shall no longer be tried by this crux, and in the elaborate volume before us expounds the whole mystery at great length. He subjoins much infor- mation on the subject of year letters and golden numbers, and in con- elusion devotes more than half the work to tables of regnal years of the Sovereigns of England from the Conquest to the present time, with dates according to both systems, thus, at the expense of much labour and paper, relieving all persons whom it may concern from the necessity of a calculation which we should have thought would not be found exceed- ingly onerous, by any one whose attention had once been called to the question.
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