4 JULY 1914, Page 34

Prehistoric London. By E. 0. Gordon. (E. Stock 10s. 6d.

net.)—It is rather late in the day to revive the legend of Brutus, grandson of .Aeneas, as the eponymous hero of Britain. Yet this task is essayed in all seriousness by Mr. Gordon, who finds "the surest proof of the personality of Brutus" in the Brutus Stone at Totnes, on which the Trojan Prince is said to have set foot "when be landed in Britain some few years after the fall of Troy, 1185 B.C."