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FOR READERS AND WRITERS, COLLECTORS AND LIBRARIANS.
Seventy-Eighth Year.

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Visitors to London are invited to The Piccadilly Auction Rooms (Calder House) to inspect the display of ancient Silver, Jewels and Antiques collected from the Ancestral Homes of England. To obtain the full value of your treasures, employ the Auctioneer with expert knowledge of values, and one who studies the customer's interest before his own personal gain. Although it may seem paradoxical, it is nevertheless a fact, that if you wished to buy you could not do better than attend my rooms or instruct me to purchase on your behalf. It is simply a case of one person buying what another wishes to sell that enables me to perform a double service to the advantage of both buyer and seller.

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I have a fleet of motor cars and staff of experts constantly touring the country visiting the homes of the hard-pressed fixed income classes, who are compelled to part with their treasures in order to meet the everincreasing demands of the tax collector. For 21s. two of my representa

tives-one with a knowledge of Plate and Jewels, and the other Pictures, Porcelain, Old Furniture, Objects of Art, etc.—will call and impart all the information they can, and, if necessary, bring the jewels and silver away in the car. If desired, a third will also call to confer with those who wish to sell their landed property by auction or by private treaty, to talk about valuations for mortgages, dilapidations, and all such matters undertaken by a surveyor.

Valuations for Probate, Insurance, etc., at moderate fees. Weekly Auction Sales of Pearls, Diamonds, Old Silver, Sheffield Plate. No buyingin charges. Stamps purchased for cash to any amount. Parcels safe registered post.

W. E. HURCOMB, Calder House (Entrance: 1, Dover Street),

Piccadilly, London, W. 1. 'Phone Regent 6878-9.

HURCOMB

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NOTES AND QUERIES is published every Friday, at 20, High Street, High Wycombe, Bucks (Telephone: Wycombe 306). Subscriptions (82 28. a year, U.S.A. $10.50, including postage, two half-yearly indexes and two cloth binding cases, or £1 158. 4d. a year, U.S.A. $9, without binding cases) should be sent to the Manager. The London Office is at 22, Essex Street, W.C.2 (Telephone: Central 396), where numbers, indexes and bound volumes should be sent either to London or to Wycombe; letters for the Editor to the London Office.

the current issue is on sale. Orders for back

Memorabilia.

WE heartily congratulate the Editor of Antiquity and his contributors on their new number. It starts out with Dr. Hooton's

discussion of the ever-fresh enquiry, Where did Man originate?-a discussion which ends by rejection of the theory of a central Asiatic area whence the protohuman (is this an accepted word) stocks were dispersed, in favour of the view that the Medi

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terranean zone and Northern Africa were

the scenes of great part of anthropoid
development. Dr. Hooton seems inclined to
believe that more than one anthropoid form
made progress towards humanity. Profes-
sor Mawer has an article on Place-names
and Archaeology in which, among several
other matters of great interest, is suggestion
of a new interpretation of -stone in some
place-names, grounded upon the Hursting
stone, or Abbot's Chair at Woodhurst,
Hunts. Dr. Randall MacIver works out in
a substantial paper the debt which later
civilization owes, chiefly through Rome, to
the Etruscans. "The name of Rome,"
he concludes," itself is probably Etruscan."
Mr. W. G. Collingwood in
" Christian
Vikings' sets out reasons for believing that
in the ninth century Viking settlers very
largely embraced Christianity, in however
imperfect a way, with the result that their
sons and grandsons in certain districts of
northern England became founders
churches. The Editor fulfils the promise
made in the first number of this review and
sets out, trenchantly too, his reasons for
disagreeing with M. Salomon Reinach's
interpretation of the finds at Glozel, which

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The Mercure de France for June 15
contains an illustrated article by Dr. A.
Morlet entitled 'Premières Hypothèses sur
le Système de Numération des Glozéliens'
which, accepting the authenticity of the
finds and their neolithic origin, proceeds to
discover in the scratches and crosses upon
them a scheme of numeration which may
even with some plausibility be guessed to
be decimal. This is all very well, if the
fundamental case for genuineness could be
satisfactorily made out.
We fear the pros-

pect of doing so is not bright.
THOSE who are interested in the Roman
of defence and occupation which have left
Empire, and particularly in the armies
traces in so many parts of Europe may like
to note the article on the Worship of
Mithras by Lieut.-Colonel Spain, published
in the July Cornhill. Colonel Spain presents
careful reference to archaeological discoveries.
his topic most sympathetically and with
In conclusion he hazards two suggestions:
first, that the worship of Mithras continued
that the cross-legged effigies on tombs are
in secret into the Middle Ages, and secondly
in some sort a reminiscence of the charac-
teristic cross-legged attitude
adopted for
bearers, who stood on each side of the bas-
statues of the Mithraic Dadophori, or Torch-
relief of the Killing of the Bull in the
Mithraic temples. Mr. J. R. Macphail
contributes
this number a pleasant
sketch-well illustrated from Boswell's
letters and Boswelliana generally of
Dr. Johnson's unique admirer. Another
H. R. Cumming's description of Hunt-
good article first of a series-is Mr.
ing Experiences in Rhodesia, in which he
introduces the reader to a truly formidable
Zwaart Haart Jan (Black Heart Jan) and
Boer hunter, Jan van der Stell, called
the Cruel.
by the natives Kanamusa, which is to say

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THIS last week has seen the celebration of two great centenaries-of three even, if we are not too minutely, pedantically

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