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The Ancient Cubit and Our Weights and Measures. By Lieutenant-

General Sir Charles Warren. (Palestine Exploration Fund. 3s. 6d. ; 5s. 6d. to non-subscribers.)—The contents of this volume are too technical for us to deal with in these columns. We must be content with quoting the author's statement of his contention that " all the weights and measures in use (except those of the metrical system) are derived from one source, the original double cubit cubes of Babylonia, and that in the British Isles the ancient weights and measures have been preserved more carefully than elsewhere."