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Winchester College Notions. By Three Beetleites. (P. and G. Wells,

Winchester. 4s. 6d. net.)—In Wykehamist parlance "notions" means slang, if the expression is not disrespect- ful, of which Winchester has a peculiarly rich collection. The "notions" here occupy a hundred and thirty - seven pages, though a certain amount of this space is occupied by obsolete words. This is a subject outside our range of critical competence. Generally, one may think it made too much of, but this will certainly be regarded by persons really interested as the "notion "—to use the word in its usual sense— of an outsider. There is to be found, we should say, a certain amount of information that cannot fail to be interesting to every one.