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NATURE NOTES 
dealing with one locality and incorporating local place-names and local archte- 
ology from flint implements and bronze palstaves to Norman castle, “ Perpen- 
dicular church-window and Tudor gatehouse. Mr. Lowerison’s fourteen stories 
The Grand Entrance, Castle Rising. 
(From a drawing by Walter Dexter, R.B.A., for Harry Lowerison’s 
“ Heacham Tales.”) 
are short enough and “ sensational ” enough to rivet any boy’s attention, and if the 
adult reader does detect the loving pedantry of the antiquary, was it not also 
obvious enough in Sir Walter himself? We quite admit that it is inconsistent 
with truth to permit the young to view all life through roseate spectacles ; but 
