Angio.Stazon Britain, by Grant Allen, B.A. (Society for Promoting Christian
Knowledge), is a not unsuccessful attempt to give "a brief sketch of Britain under our early English conquerors, rather from the social than the political point of view." Such being the cud, Mr. Allen has followed the example of the late Mr. Charles Knight, and has told us loss about kings, and rulers, and statesmen than about the laws, habits, customs, and surviving monuments of the people them- selves. He has drawn, as might be expected, on Bede, and Florence of Worcester, on Sir Francis Palgrave, Dr. Freeman, Canon Stubbs, Mr. J. R. Green, Professor Rolleston, and Dr. Guest, whose papers in the "Transactions " of the Archreological Institute he has laid largely under contribution. If any reader wishes to obtain, in a small compass, a general and popular view of our Anglo-Saxon language, literature, and laws, he cannot do better than study this careful and conscientious epitome of those subjects.
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