CHRISTOPHER WORDSWORTH, M.A., AND HENRY LITTLEHALES A clear description of the plan and contents of all the various service books in use in the English Church before the Reformation. The descriptions have been written mainly from the books themselves, often from those known to have been formerly in use in specified parish churches. One whole page of every important service-book is given in facsimile, and reproductions of illuminations have also been supplied, some of which depict services taking place. CELTIC ART J. ROMILLY ALLEN, F.S.A. “Celtic Art” embodies the results of the most recent researches with regard to the peculiarly Celtic phases of “Hallstatt” and “La Tène” culture on the continent of Europe and their extension to Great Britain in the Ages of Bronze and Iron. An endeavour is made to show the effects produced in the art of the Celtic peoples in Pagan times, by their coming in contact on the one hand with the lower culture of the Neolithic aborigines of Britain, and on the other with higher civilisations of the Mediterranean nations. Lastly, it is explained how the decorative motives which the Pagan Celt had absorbed from various sources were incorporated in the art of the Christian period. ARCHÆOLOGY AND FALSE ANTIQUITIES ROBERT MUNRO, M.D., LL.D. The main object of this work is to show how modern methods of Comparative Archæology may be utilised as a means of detecting erroneous conclusions, whether founded on imperfect observations, false statements, or the actual forgery of objects. A brief account is given of a number of discoveries in various parts of the world which have become the subject of controversy, as well as some notable forgeries. Then follows a criticism of the so-called “idols,” “totems,” “_churingas_,” etc., recently found in the Clyde valley, which are still the subject of acute controversy. The concluding chapter deals with the lessons to be derived from the above narrative of the results of ignorance, fraud, and imposture. SHRINES OF BRITISH SAINTS J. CHARLES WALL “Shrines of British Saints” deals with a class of monuments which, throughout the Middle Ages, was of magnetic attraction, largely governing the social and religious life of the nation, but which has all but ceased to exist in the British Isles. From illumined page and fragmentary sculpture the style and structure of shrines is here set forth. The art bestowed upon them, the influence they had upon the designs of cathedrals and great churches, and the legends surrounding them, form a subject of no mean value in the life of Englishmen. THESE VOLUMES WILL FOLLOW