THE ANTIQUARY.
Winchester Records. By J. 8. Furley, M.A. (Milford. 14s.) Mr. Furley is modest when he refers to himself as a " local amateur antiquary." He has studied his ground and his documents very thoroughly, and has written a book of great historical and antiquarian interest. He has given us a precise history of the City of Winchester during the reign of Richard II. and the first years of the fifteenth century, and a mass of information that has obviously been extracted with great care from the old records of the town. Most interesting is the story of an early copy of the " Ancient Usages of the City of Winchester," which lay undiscovered in Winchester College till 1852. Before its discovery only two later defective copies were known to be in existence. Mr. Furley's pains in collecting so much of interest deserve some recognition.
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