The January number of History, the admirable quarterly journal of
the Historical Association (Macmillan, 2s. net), contains the concluding part of a valuable paper by Miss E. Jeffries Davis on " London and its Records." " No city in the world, save Rome, has so great a history as London ; few have historical monuments so numerous or so ancient ; none, perhaps, so little civic pride." The author's enumeration of some of the main classes of London's voluminous records will certainly surprise most Londoners. Miss Kate Hotblack writes on " The Dutch and Walloons at Norwich "—Protestant refugees who were invited to settle in the city, in and after 1564, because they were skilled in " making bags, arras, sayer, tapestry, mochadoes, stamets, carsay, and such other outlandish com- modities as hath not been used to be made within this our realm." The weavers brought fresh prosperity to Norwich. Professor A. J. Grant contributes a paper on " Dante's Conception of History." •
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