The Signs of Old Lombard Street. By F. G. Hilton
Price. (Field and Tner.)—This is a handsome volume, handsomely illustrated. A vast amount of pains has been expended on getting together the carious information which it contains. Indeed, it may safely be said that it is exhaustive. It is always satisfactory to feel, about even the smallest branch of human knowledge, that it is closed, and this satis- faction Mr. Price gives us. We can say,—" All that can be known about Lombard Street signs is here." We can but wish that he had conveyed the information that he gives us in tolerable English. "They {the Jews] continued to be ill-treated and robbed under a succession of monarchs, until it culminated in the reign of Edward I.," &c., is a specimen of Mr. Price's style. As he has just mentioned a popular outbreak against the Jews in 1264, it would be interesting to know something more about the "succession of monarchs" who came between that year and the "culminating" time of Edward I.
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