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 NOTICES. 435 neighbour, Mr. William Swift, a really fine example of a local antiquary. The great majority of the documents relate either to Yorkshire or Derbyshire, a few to other counties. Perhaps not one of them can be called of very great importance, but quite apart from their local interest, which is very great, they are sufficiently varied to give any student of English land tenures and social customs a fine browsing-ground, and an excellent introduction to the history of English handwriting. Even the mere bibliographer may be pleased at finding two examples of the pretty custom, when a friendly lease was granted, of making the annual rent a rose, or at tracing the history of a whole family of Parkers by means of successive deeds, or at making the acquaintance of so many expressive words which have now become obsolete. The cataloguing of the collection by Mr. Hill and Mr. Thomas is a model of how such work should be done, and Dr. Jackson's prefatory note contains sketches of his grandfather, father, and brother, all of them surgeons practising at Sheffield, which arc really delightful. We hope that this excellent catalogue, like its predecessor, will attract further donations. Index to the Works of John Henry Cardinal Newman. By Joseph Rickaby, S.J., B.Sc. (Oxon.). Long- mans, Green & Co. pp. vm. 1 56. Price 6s. net. Mr. Rickaby explains in his preface that ' this is not a Concordance, or Onomasticon ; it is meant to be a guide to Newman's thought, to the changes of that thought, or, as he would have said, to the