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 480 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2fl.vntj ran .ii,i. greater number of photographs from works o which the British Museum has not a cast. The Catalogue is, of course, indispensable fo any library used by students of Greek archse ology. The Historic Names of the Streets and Lanes o Oxford, Intra Muros. By H. E. Salter (Oxford, Clarendon Press.) THIS delightful and erudite booklet should fim a place on the shelves of all lovers of Oxford The Poet Laureate furnishes a Preface which i: principally devoted to persuading all whom i may concern of the absurdity of certain modern names recently bestowed upon old streets, anc the desirability of restoring one or other of thr former names. Certainly " St. Catherine Street ' for " Cat Street " is a foolish misnomer, there being nothing to suggest St. Catherine in the locality ; " Great Bailey," with its definite his- torical suggestion, suits a medieval town better than the neutral and merely complimentary " Queen Street " ; Bocardo is a picturesque name it is a pity to have lost ; and the stupid name " Church Street " may well be done away with. The suggestion to replace " Street " by the original " Lane " seems to us less sound. The persistence of " Lane " from the first mention of the Merton or Blue Boar thoroughfare till the present day would have been the ideal but since " Street " was substituted in accordance with a genuine custom, to go back to " Lane " seems pedantic. These matters are, however, of secondary im- portance so far as the interest of Mr. Salter's pamphlet is concerned. From the Cartularies of St. Frideswide's and of the Hospital of St. John, from Wood and from numerous College documents, Mr. Salter has so clearly set out the plan of Oxford within the walls, and indicated the divers changes in the course oi centuries, that the old city seems to appear to one's imagination behind what exists to-day much as the faintly shaded churches and colleges do in the map which illustrates the text. The names of streets in old days were far from constant, and even in the case of a fairly im- portant one, like that which ran round the inside of the north wall from North Gate to East Gate, it might, in medieval times, not be con- sidered intolerably inconvenient to dispense with a recognized name altogether. New Inn Hall Street for more than two centuries and, we are told, within the memory of living man was known as " the Seven Deadly Sins," a cheer- ful appellation, the origin of which has not been explained with any certainty. It is perhaps sur- prising that there are not more old names which embody ancient jests on or allusions to the studies of the University. A Southern Sketch-Book. Through Old Sussex from Lewes to Chichester. By A. Leonard Summers. (The Homeland Association, 12s. 6d. net.) THE work of amateurs has a distinct function in topography. It may be considered as part of the response of the people to what modern journalism calls the " lure " of their land : a response more articulate than mere visiting and admiring, and perhaps more apt than the work of scholars and artists by profession to start a kindred interest in minds not yet satisfactorily aware of the treasures England contains. On this ground we think the volume before us deserves a welcome. Though the sketches are very uneven in merit they nearly all have pre- served something of the pleasure which went to their making ; and the accompanying text, though it is of the slightest and passes over much that one would expect to be mentioned (e.a., the font at St. Nicholas' Church, Brighton) yet conveys something of the "feel" of that quarter of Sussex with which it deals. A valuable part of the book is the reproduction of John Speed's map of the county, with his description and list of parishes, and the note of Mr. Prescott Row upon these. WE have received from the Library Association, 33, Bloomsbury Square, W.C.I, Class-Lists G. and H. of the Subject Index to Periodicals. These are the Lists for Fine Arts (with Archae- ology) and Music respectively ; and they cover the three years 1917-1919. We are glad to learn that this year the annual publication of this most useful compilation will be resumed. 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