A very useful book, less expensive than the above, was written by Prou, published in Paris by Alphonse Picard, éditeur, 82, Rue Bonaparte; and cheaper still than this is the ‘Paléographie des Chartes et des Manuscrits du XI. au XVII. Siècles,’ par Alphonse Chassant, published by Auguste Aubry, Rue Dauphine 16, Paris. The best-known cheap book on the subject, however, is a small paper-bound volume, ‘Dictionnaire des Abbréviations Latines et Françaises,’ par Alphonse Chassant, published by Jules Martin, 19, Boulevard Haussmann, Paris, at the low price of 2 francs 50 centimes; it has already reached a fifth edition. There are also books on paleography written in German, Spanish and Italian, but these are seldom met with in England. Now let us see what our own countrymen have done towards elucidating our national manuscripts. The list will not be a long one. It must be borne in mind that first of all four separate languages are required, namely, Anglo-Saxon, Norman-French, Latin and Old English. For the first of these, the standard work is Bosworth’s Anglo-Saxon dictionary; a second-hand copy may be bought for 8s. 6d. It contains the alphabet and grammatical peculiarities of the Anglo-Saxon language, besides the dictionary of words. For Norman-French, all that is required at first start is a familiarity with the modern language. Any good, old-fashioned dictionary will be of assistance, and later on Roquefort’s dictionary, Lacombe’s Burguy, and the glossary in the Supplement to Ducange, may be resorted to, to solve difficulties. Latin and English may be studied together, the one being translated verbatim from the other. The standard English work upon handwriting as a whole is called ‘The Origin and Progress of Handwriting,’ by Astle; it was published in the beginning of this century. A good copy is now worth two or three sovereigns, though I have seen it advertised for 12s. 6d. This book deals with every kind of known writing from its earliest existence. There are facsimiles of Hebrew, Sanscrit, Greek, Latin, and other languages, besides specimens of English charters of each century. The Paleographic Society was started in 1873, and their yearly volumes contain exact representations of the old documents, but these cost £1 1s. each. They are valuable as having the facsimile and its transcript side by side, but as yet they have only selected very old charters, not considering mediæval English deeds worthy of consideration. Bosworth’s Anglo-Saxon dictionary is the standard work on this subject. Some Anglo-Saxon manuscripts were published in 1878 by command of the Queen, upon the recommendation of the Master of the Rolls, the work being undertaken by General Cameron, director of the Ordnance Survey, with translations added by W. Basevi-Saunders. The charters selected were those among the archives of Canterbury Cathedral, as they give three centuries of Anglo-Saxon history, A.D. 742 to A.D. 1049. This work now fetches £2 2s.