The Antiquary (Elliot Stock), although it is expressly declared to
be "a magazine devoted to the study of the past," has now become so interesting that the ordinary—if he happens also to be extraordinarily curious—reader will find a vast deal in it to amuse and edify him. Take, for example, the Rev. Mr. Barham's article in the January number on "Ragged Relics." What might not a Mr. R. L. Stevenson—not to speak of a Captain Grose—make of the sailors' "cast-offs," in the shape of crutches, jewels, clothes, and models of fish, ships, &c., which are to be found in the shrine of Notre Dame de la Garde in Marseilles Among the other papers in an excellent number may be singled out for special commendation "Nooks and Corners of Herefordshire," "Excava- tions in Silchester in 1892," and "Important Archmological Dis- covery at Goring, Sussex." This discovery seems of military as well as of historical and ethnological value.
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