in disclaiming the art that especially belongs to his country surpasses my comprehension. Let us hear what the _Saturday Review_ has to say on the subject of Celtic art. Taking exception to many of my positions, it says: “He [Mr. Roger] is on much firmer ground when he declines to believe in any art or culture that can fairly be called Celtic. The very patterns which are usually spoken of as Celtic are common to all the gold work of the Mycenæan graves, which few people, we think, will now place much later than 1500 B.C.” “Dr. Schliemann’s Mycenæan discoveries deprive the Celts of any credit for originality in their system of spiral ornament.” Again “‘_Celtic_’ patterns certainly existed on the shores of the Ægean fifteen hundred years before our era.” “Mr. Roger is probably right when he claims a Scandinavian origin for the ancient claymores (two handed), for the Tara brooch and other brooches, for stone crosses, dirk handles, and what so else is too commonly attributed to Celtic art.” “‘What is Celtic art?’ cries Mr. Roger, triumphantly. What, indeed? ‘The Celts, Pinkerton tells us, had no monuments, any more than the Finns or savage Africans, or Americans.’ As to Americans, Mr. Roger can see their bas-reliefs at the South Kensington Museum;[4] _but for Celtic art not derived from the Scandinavians or Romans, we know not where to bid him look_.” I am content to rest the matter here. There is no art known as distinctively Celtic, and in this aspect of the question I am confirmed by the _Saturday Review_. But to return to Professor Freeman. In a number of the publication called _The Antiquary_, issued on November 16th, 1872, the writer of a paper on _The Landing of the Saxons in Kent_, tells us that “after pillaging for ‘a hundred and fifty years’ the British shores,” the Jutes, or Saxons, landed under Hengist and Horsa, “and here,” the writer says, “we must halt for a few moments till we have disposed of Mr. E. A. Freeman’s astounding statement that Horsa meant _mare_. Hors, our misspelt _horse_,” the writer says, “is like its German equivalent Ross, a neuter word. The Saxon hero is sometimes called simply Hors, but more frequently by the addition of a masculine termination--a, as in ‘Ida Ælla,’ and some thousands more, he becomes Horsa, masculine and male. _Mare_ is Myre, feminine. * * * * If Mr. Freeman will be good enough to tell us how he came to fall into this preposterous error, we may possibly clear up the cause of his mistake; for the most part, when he makes a bad blunder, we can form a notion what better authority has misled him; but in this case no English dictionary, grammar, or history can have been consulted by him. Can it have been a Latin grammar? Mr. Freeman is extensively known as blowing weekly a shrill trumpet, ‘_asper, acerba, sonans_,’ in reviews of literary and illiterate performances, but then he is in hiding; we hear the obstreperous whirr, but the midge is behind