Messrs. Methuen will shortly begin the issue of a series of volumes dealing with various branches of English Antiquities. It is confidently hoped that these books will prove to be comprehensive and popular, as well as accurate and scholarly; so that they may be of service to the general reader, and at the same time helpful and trustworthy books of reference to the antiquary or student. The writers will make every endeavour to avail themselves of the most recent research. The series will be edited by the well-known antiquary, J. Charles Cox, LL.D., F.S.A., Member of the Royal Archæological Institute, and Corresponding Member of the British Archæological Association. Each book will be entrusted to an expert in the selected subject, and the publishers are fortunate in having secured the services of distinguished writers. A special feature will be made of the illustrations, which will vary, according to the requirement of the subjects, from 50 to 150. Some will be in colour. The type will be large and clear, the length of each volume will be about 320 pages, and the size will be demy 8vo. The volumes will be issued at the price of 7s. 6d. net. THE FIRST VOLUMES ARE ENGLISH MONASTIC LIFE ABBOT GASQUET, O.S.B., D.D., PH.D., D.LITT. In these pages the daily round of the old life of English monks and nuns is fully set forth, together with interesting details as to their various officials and methods of administration. Illustrations are given of the habits of the various orders, as well as plates taken from old MSS., ground plans of important houses, and maps showing the distribution of the different monasteries. A full and accurate list of the whole of the English religious houses (including the hospitals) suppressed at the Reformation is for the first time set forth, together with indications of the cases in which there are extant remains. REMAINS OF THE PREHISTORIC AGE IN ENGLAND PROF. B. C. A. WINDLE, D.SC., F.R.S. This book is intended to give an account of the present state of knowledge respecting the relics of prehistoric man in this country. Though chiefly dealing with objects found in England, where necessary, descriptions have been given of discoveries made in other parts of the kingdom and of the world. The object of the writer has been to confine himself, as far as possible, to ascertained facts, and to leave theories aside, but matters of present controversy, such as the question of eoliths and that of the transition between the Palæolithic and Neolithic periods, have been fully dealt with. Lists of the most important objects of large size have been added to the chapters dealing with them, and there is also a list of museums in this country in which collections of the smaller objects are on view. The book is illustrated by nearly one hundred figures, all of which have been specially drawn for it, and most of which have not previously appeared elsewhere. OLD SERVICE BOOKS OF THE ENGLISH CHURCH