Mawr Crosses. By P. M. C. Kermode. (i3emrose and Sons.
63s. net.)—Mr. Kermode has devoted himself to the study of Manic crosses for many years. He published a catalogue of them in 1887, revising and enlarging this work five years later. We have now a complete account of the subject in this very
handsome volume, which Manx patriotism, assisted by the appreciation of the public in general, will, we hope, make a success.
There are jul all one hundred and sixteen crosses in Man, of which seventy-one are classed as pre-Scandinavian, forty-five as Scandinavian. Another division gives eighty-nine as uninscribed, and thirty-seven as inscribed, the proportion of the latter being considerably larger in the Scandinavian portion,—twenty-six to nineteen, as against eight to sixty-three. More than half of the whole are found in the parish of Maughold, on the eastern coast.
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