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 NOTICES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL PUBLICATIONS. 197 But to our mind the most important part of the book is the Ap- pendix. Here Mr. Blade.s appears to have made a real discovery. His suggestion that many of the typograj)hical errors and various readings which so perplex the Shakspeare student are to be attributed to what printers call a " foul case," deserves more attention than any other so- called Shakspearian discovery that has been made for many years. By a diagram showing the old form of a case of type, he enables us to judge for ourselves of the probability of his suggestion. He gives only one or two examples, but they are, if not conclusive, at least very remarkable ; and if we hesitate to follow him any further, it is l)ecause tliis is not the jilace for such a di-scussion as that we should entail. We have read Mr. Blades's little book with great pleasure, and while we hope he may not be drawn into the " great Shakspearian controver.sy," we cannot but acknowledge with thanks the work he has here given us. W. J. L. ARCH^OLOGIA CANTIANA, Vol. VIII., 1S72. It is four years since the Kent society favoured its members with a volume. This is not from any want of activity on the part of the managci-8 of a very flourishing community. It is the first maxim in the art of public speaking, " Do not s]ieak unless you have something to say, and stop when you have said it;" a paradoxical sentence ou which the Kent society seems to act in the piildication of these A'olumes. In the fifteen years of its existence it has only put forth eight volumes, but these are of the highest antiquarian value, and contrast well with many jtublications of the kind, all the matter with which they are filled being of imi)ortance, there being no surplusage, and the illustra- tions being of a singularly clear, if not an ad captaiuium character. The present instalment l)rings the proceedings of the society down to the end of the thirteenth annual meeting, which was held at Sittingbourne on the 3rd and 4th of August, 1870. The chief papers it contains are on the Jute, Angle, and Saxon ; Royal Pedigrees, by Mr. Haigh,who also con- tributes an article on Runic Monuments in Kent ; some documents relatino- to a passage in the history of the Twvsden Family, communicated originally by the lamented Mr. Laiking, and illustrated b}- Canon Jenkins ; some Parochial Inventories, taken in Kent in 15.52, and annotated liy Mr. ("oates, Mr. Scott Robertson, and others; a further selection from the Chartei-s of C'limbwell Priory; and an account of Mr. Dowker's Re- searches in the Roman Castrum at Richborougli. There are also, in an ajijiendix, some minor notes of great interest, including a fresh refu- tation of the " recurrent fiction" of the loss of the body of Henry IV. on its way to the tomb in Canterbury Cathedral. On the whole, an excellent volume has been added to the series which Mr. Godfrey Faussett and his coadjutors have presented to the antiquaries of their county. W. J. L.