Thursday's Times contained an interesting account of the progress which
has been made in the arrangement of the London Museum, which is being installed temporarily in Kensington Palace. It is hoped that the collection will be ready to be opened by the King soon after his return from India. The earliest exhibits of objects excavated in London belong to the palmolithic age, but, strangely enough, it is not until after the Norman invasion that the number and nature of the relics begin to show that London was growing into an important town. Thus we are told that Roman London " must have been a place socially less important than many other settlements and stations—much less so, for instance. than Colchester." So few, moreover, are the Saxon and Early English finds "as to make it appear that after the withdrawal of the Romans London had sunk back almost to the condition of a village." Among the many interesting acquisitions of the Museum none will be more admired than Mr. Seymour Lucas's collection of historical costumes.
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