what might otherwise be good work. We can imagine an objection being raised that so little is known as to palæolithic man, that for the present purpose he might have been left out altogether. This would certainly have been an error. Far more has been now rendered certain than many people think, and it is important that well-ascertained facts should be made known. There are still many persons, otherwise not ill informed, who are under the impression that the implements of the stone age which are found from time to time in the river gravels may have been the result of unintelligent causes. It would be as rational to suggest that a steamengine or a watch was a freak of nature. The Saxon, Norman, and later medieval portions of the work are all that could be desired, and we have a very accurate and unprejudiced account of the monastic system as it influenced Hampshire. The account given of Winchester is by far the best that we have ever met with. 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