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30 a retreat, while archæology and craniology are bringing themselves to the front in the interpretation of man's prehistoric past. We await the time for folk-lore to range itself alongside of these great studies, fully recognised and fully used in the sense that Edmund Spenser wrote three centuries ago: "By these old customes the descent of nations can only be proved, where other monuments of writings are not remayning."