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 Reviews and Notes 647 disadvantage of a glossary is that the reader, when he comes upon a passage that he does not understand, turns first to the Notes for help, or at least is uncertain where he should look for aid. Furthermore, the editor is quite as often at a loss where to put the information he wishes to impart. For example, on pages 154-55 of his Notes, Mr. Lockert prints: "cause affair, business;" "Calenture a disease incident to sailors within the tropics"; "aflaxe the flax wick of a lamp or candle"; "a lace a trimming of lace"; "pickadille the expansive collar fashion- able in the early part of the seventeenth century"; "Ephi- merides a table showing the positions of a heavenly body for a series of successive days"; etc. This is exactly the sort of material that the editor professes to place in the Glossary. The excellent Bibliography, with which the volume closes, seems to include everything of real importance. On the whole, we have here a scholarly edition of one of Massinger's best plays, which should be welcomed to the library of every Elizabethan scholar. JOSEPH QUINCY ADAMS. Cornell University. THE ANCIENT CROSS SHAFTS AT BEWCASTLE AND RUTHWELL. Enlarged from the Rede Lecture delivered before the University of Cambridge on 20 May 1916. By the Right Rev. G. F. Browne, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D. With Three Photogravures and Twenty-three Illustrations. Cam- bridge University Press, 1916. G. P. Putnam's Sons, American representatives. X+92 pages. Price $2.25. Browne's handsome quarto volume of 89 pages of discussion is mainly controversial, upholding his former views of an early date of the two crosses. His attack is directed mainly against The Date of the Ruthwell and Bewcastle Crosses, issued in 1912 by Prof. Albert S. Cook, though the author is not acquainted with or ignores important articles by the same writer. For accord- ing to the admission of Browne, the Rede Lecture was hastily prepared without sufficient opportunity to examine the litera- ture that had appeared during the last 25 years, a fact which is apparent on many pages. Thus the apology with which the author re-enters the arena is not superfluous. As in a previous work, Dr. Browne in the volume before us argues that the occurrence of the names of several persons well known in the second half of the 7th century and the mention of the first year of a king on the Bewcastle Cross indicate the year 670 as the date of the shaft. On account of similarities the Ruthwell Cross is linked with the Bewcastle, though placed somewhat later. The earlier and finer half of The Dream of the