We see that our enquiry has taken us into realms far removed from everyday experience and in which we feel the need of special training in order to weigh the facts presented. It has given us glimpses of the workshop of the archaeologist, the anthropologist, and the etymologist. The study of later developments has led us into curious by-paths of art and literature--classical, mediaeval, renaissance, and modern--and we see that even now the labyrinth idea has not entirely ceased to exercise its allurements or to evoke the spirit of invention. There is still room for a good deal of research and for the possibility of highly interesting discoveries in respect of almost every phase of the labyrinth's past history. With regard to its future developments, much as we should have liked to close our review with a vindication of utilitarian interest, and although one can never safely prophesy to what uses the ingenuity of men may put any given principle, we could not hope to sound an expectant note without creating an impression of fatuity. Lest this statement be taken to mean that our enquiry has, therefore, had no practical aim, let us hasten to repeat once more the hope expressed in our introductory chapter to the effect that a perusal of this little book will at least ensure a revival of interest in, and consequently the preservation of, those few relics of rustic revelry and prehistoric magic which yet remain with us in the shape of the turf labyrinths. As Mr. A. H. Allcroft, in his "Earthwork of England" (1908), has truly remarked, when speaking of the Asenby maze: "It is marvellous that the memory of such things, once prominent features of rural life, can die out so rapidly as it does." And yet, who can deny that they are worthy of at least as much care and interest as many of the obvious and commonplace antiquities upon which the guide-books lavish their encomiums? We need not emulate the misguided enthusiasm of those who are unable to discover a merit in a bygone practice without plunging into an indiscriminate advocacy of its revival--an enthusiasm which inevitably brings discredit upon its object--but let us at any rate see to it that no more of these rare and interesting heirlooms are lost to us through ignorance or neglect. APPENDIX BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MAZES AND LABYRINTHS (TOGETHER WITH NAMES OF PERSONS WHO HAVE FURNISHED THE WRITER WITH FIRST-HAND INFORMATION) NOTE.--_Names of Authors are also arranged alphabetically in the Index, which contains detailed references to the sections of the Bibliography._ I. GENERAL TROLLOPE, E. "Ancient and Mediaeval Labyrinths," with notes by ALBERT WAY, in _Archaeological Journal_, Vol. XV, 1858. Also in _Reports of the Associated Architectural Societies_ in 1858, and appended to a paper on the Caerleon mosaic in the _Proc. Monmouth and Caerleon Antiquarian Association_, 1866. (Mainly concerned with church labyrinths and British turf mazes.)