12 DECEMBER 1868, Page 18

A Light on the Historians and on the History of

Crowland Abbey. By Henry Seale English. (J. R. Smith.)—It is difficult to road with patience or judge with equanimity a book which irritates one with perpetually recurring italics intended to mark an emphasis which one cannot detect. We shall content ourselves with stating the thesis which Mr. English seeks to establish, namely, that Ingulphus falsified the Crowland Chronicles, and that he was instigated thereto by the wicked counsels of Archbishop Lanfranc. How he seeks to make out his case those who may be curious in the matter may inquire for themselves ; we hope that they will be more successful than we have been.