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"GLEANINGS AFTER TIME."

This pleasant > volumoVis'- composed ofi.a/ number of. .papers : m c .the .earlier "volumes of . the "Antiquary," which "have boon choson primarily as. illustrating ovarious phases ;of. the_ social .and domestic ; life ,of the past, a side of arcliaeoloeic'ar study'and research which lias always possessed an immense fascination for tho, general , reader, of the outer . circle as well as for the professed antiquary." It is a book' which can bq dipped into at any .odd-moment of leisure or weariness, becauso it ■ doals ,with a variety of subjects ranging from.'V'funeral''baked .meats," . " stocking clocks," and old ihris to the " first' settlement ,of ; Preholr.; Protestants ..in 'America," '"the earliest industrial census," and " early' breach-of-promi'so eases;.". Nono of the contents, is''more .interesting than Mr. H. B. Wheatley's V'History ; 'aiid Development of the House," .to which additional interest .is. given, by quaint, illustrations mid quotations. It is almost with a sigh that Mr. Whestley closes his .articlo thus: "In theso days of. sanitary knowledge, when the cold air is better kept outside tho room, iand when tho,.need of frefih.air (not' necessarily cold) .while.•. wo .sleepv.is now fully realised, tho'stuffy hangings that may harbour disease, and keep us breathing our own" vitiated air, stand self-condemned.".'At the same time, wq aro not prepared to say we might not lie in worse quarters than in a bedroom'in a country, house, furnished in the old-fashioned manner." ' : In Mr. Walter Hamilton's article on the politeness of our .forefathers/ 1 based on a. .shabby little booklet of'a hundred arid fortyeight pages which was originally published: in 1071", there is a good ' deal:;that might bo taken"'to heart ."even 1 to-day'. '' Siicli Is' the"instruction, "To keop your hands 'in your' Pockets• is like a Lowtc." It is to be lioped, however, 1 : that''' some of the instructions _ are quite > superfluous now, such as: • " If it so happens that you bo alone with a person; of Quality and tho .'.candles to be snuffed, you must do it; with the Snuffers, not your fingers, and that neatly and quick, lest the person of Honour be" offendedwith the smell.". Equally interesting in different ways are Mr. A. M. Bell's "An Elizabethan Schoolboy.and. his Book,!'-which'book is an amusing edition of Shakepeare, and . " A Devonshire Yeoman's Diary." This Diary deals with the closing years of tho sixteenth and.the early years of the seventeenth conturies. Most of the entries are very, mat-ter-of-fact, such asJuly 24.—1t did rain very much, Mr. Bollen came to Riddon unto mo and brought me .a -cheese.-.and a' pottell of butter. 1 leant him my book of. the "Mysteries of Mount Calvary." The yeoman,'William Horinywell by name, having ai command of money, and being known as "a respectable and stocky yeoman," was utilised' by. his neighbours when they .were in, need of money, but he seems to have taken account of every penny ho spent and loaned. Enough has been said to indicate tho variety of this interesting book. [Gleanings After Time, edited .by' CI. L. Appertou. London: Elliot Stock.] —"Spectator."

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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 187, 2 May 1908, Page 12

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"GLEANINGS AFTER TIME." Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 187, 2 May 1908, Page 12

"GLEANINGS AFTER TIME." Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 187, 2 May 1908, Page 12

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