2 MARCH 1918, Page 17

- Neglected British History. By W. M. Flinders Petrie. (H.

Milford, for the British Academy. 2s. net.)—Professor Flinders Petrie, turning from ancient Egypt to early Britain, champions the claims of the Welsh chronicle of Tysilio to be the source from which Geoffrey of Monmouth worked rather than a mediaeval summary of Geoffrey. Assuming the antiquity of Tysilio, he uses the chronicle to present a new reading of Caesar's invasion and a modified account of the Saxon conquest. It is an interesting and ingenious paper, but the assumption on which it is based needs to be confirmed by Welsh philologists.