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The workmanship of the Popular Microscope is excellent. 

 Messrs. Smith, Beck, and Beck have wisely determined that 

 their lower priced instruments shall not be stinted in quality of 

 work, and we have no doubt the public will approve of this 

 decision. 



ARCHJEOLOGIA. 



"We have in our hands the newly published Uvraison, vol. vi., part 2, 

 of Mr. Roach Smith's Collectanea Antiqua, a series of etchings 

 of ancient remains, illustrative of the habits, customs, and history 

 of past ages, and, we may add, accompanied by extremely valuable 

 essays on the objects represented in the plates. This interesting 

 work is, unfortunately, almost inaccessible to the general reader. It 

 appears only at intervals, and is not printed for public sale, but ex- 

 clusively for a small number of subscribers, so that it becomes imme- 

 diately after its publication a rare book. A set from the commence- 

 ment, when it does accidentally occur for sale, is eagerly purchased 

 for a very large price. This is the more to be regretted, as Mr. 

 Roach Smith's Collectanea Antigua is, we have no hesitation in 

 saying, the most valuable collection of antiquarian essays and anti- 

 quarian information in existence. To those who are favoured with 

 the possession of it, each new number brings a really rich contribu- 

 tion of archaeological facts, as may well be expected from the long 

 experience and activity of its author ; and the present number is 

 very far from being an exception, for it contains several papers of 

 unusual interest. In one of these Mr. Smith has brought together 

 accounts of researches made recently among Anglo-Saxon ceme- 

 teries, in five different localities — Faversham and Sarre, in Kent ; 

 Chessell Down, in the Isle of Wight ; Barrington, in Cambridge- 

 shire ; and Kempston, near Bedford. These cemeteries were nearly 

 all discovered by mere accident. That at Faversham lay in the 

 line of cutting for the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway, and 

 the numerous and very remarkable objects found in it are now in the 

 possession of W. Gribbs, Esq., of that place. That at Bari'ington was 

 brought to light during the process of land drainage, and that at 

 Kempston was dug into in the course of digging a gravel-pit. They 

 belong to at least two different branches of the Anglo-Saxon family, 

 for the cemeteries at Barrington and Kempston were, of course, 

 Anglian burial places, while those found in Kent belonged 

 to the Jutes, who, according to the early Anglo-Saxon historians, 

 formed the population of that part of England. The difference in 

 form and design of the principal personal ornaments found in these 

 different sets of graves seems to show that each branch of the race — 

 Angles, or Jutes, or Saxons — wore a distinctive costume, at least 

 during the earlier period of then history, so that the nationality of 

 the individual would be at once apparent by his dress. This is only 



