4 JANUARY 1908, Page 38

Index of Archaeological Papers, 1665-1890. Edited by George Laurence Gomme.

(A. Constable and Co. 255. net.)—Here we have the result of much labour. The " transactions " of between ninety and a hundred societies, archaeological, philosophical, and literary, have been examined and tabulated. The index consists of more than nine hundred pages, and may be calculated to give particulars of something like forty thousand items. It is arranged under names,—we observe that " Church (Rev. C. M.)" and "Church (Rev. Canon) " are separately entered. These are designations of one person. The index ends where the annual index of the Congress of Archaeological Societies begins. A subject index covering the same ground would be of the greatest utility. The names of the writers necessarily mean little or nothing in many cases.