The Sussex Lead Other counties have more than once been
urged to follow the example of Sussex and produce a County Magazine. The idea has been discussed widely, and among the latest counties to follow suit is Gloucestershire. The commonest objection appears to be the apprehension that the supply of material would not last; that the subjects would be exhausted. The example of Sussex shows the falsity of this fear. The February number of this year is perhaps the best yet issued : topography, history, archaeology, arts and crafts, of the present and the past, natural history, personalities, rural preservation, with the more imaginative contributions, give an inexhaustible supply of material, and the camera adds more and more charm. Discoveries, too, are still being made and will be made. In Hertfordshire, for example, which possesses no such magazine, the excavations of Roman remains, of Belgic remains, and even of Saxon relics, continue to unearth records of which the greater part of the county is wholly unaware: and the many natural history societies accumulate records of which nothing whatever is heard outside the narrow circle of each society.
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