Notices of Remains of Ecclesiastical Architecture in Norfolk,Supposed to be of the Saxon Period

Documentary research shows that an unprovenanced, non-matching ‘pair’ of Viking oval brooches now in the British Museum are, in fact, from a grave in the Viking cemetery discovered in the nineteenth century at Pierowall, Westray, Orkney. Found in 1839, they had subsequently passed through the hands of a number of private collectors and dealers, sadly losing their grave associations and sustaining a little damage in the process. It is even more disturbing to note that eventually their provenance was lost (or suppressed?). Fortunately the ‘pair’ was never split up, which has facilitated their re-identification.     

The Growth of Enterprise Zones: A Policy Transformation

The rapid growth of enterprise zones during the 1980s has occurred despite the lack of empirical support for its theory of using tax incentives to rebuild inner cities. This paper concludes, after reviewing the literature and assessments made by zone coordinators that enterprise zones, like Head start, have been transformed into a program through which both conservatives and liberals can justify spending on improved community social and infrastructure services.     

The Alexander‐gosling expedition

The Water of Leith from Source to Sea. By John Geddie. Illustrated by Joseph Brown. Edinburgh: W. H. White and Co., Ltd., 1896. Pp. 220.

Wild Life in Scotland. By J. H. Crawford, F.L.S. Illustrations by John Williamson. London: John Macqueen, 1896. Pp. 280. Price 8s. 6d.

Annals of Garelochside: Being an Account, Historical and Topographical, of the Parishes of Row, Rosneath, and Cardross. By William Charles Maughan, author of Bosneath Past and Present, etc., etc. With Illustrations by Alexander M'Gibbon, Esq., Architect. Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1897. Pp. xii + 331.

The United States of America, 1765–1865. ("Cambridge Historical Series.”) By Edward Ciianning, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of History in Harvard University. Cambridge: University Press, 1896. Pp. 352. With three maps.

Bohemia. By C. Edmund Maurice. ("Story of the Nations Series.”) London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1896. Pp. 533. Price 5s.

Madagascar before the Conquest—the Island, the Country, and the People. With Chapters on Travel and Topography, Folk‐lore, Strange Customs and Superstitions, the Animal Life of the Island, and Mission Work and Progress among the Inhabitants. By the Rev. James Sibree, F.R.G.S. With Maps and Illustrations from Photographs. London: Fisher Unwin, 1896. Pp. 382 and Map. No Index. Price 16s.

Blandt Nordpolen's Naboer. Af Eivind Astrup. Kristiania: H. Aschehoug and Co.’s Forlag, 1896.

The Work of the Tibetan Expedition, 1889–90, under the Command of M. V. Pievtsof. Part III. (In Russian.) St. Petersburg: Tipografia M. Stasiu‐levich, 1896. Pp. 126.

Grundzüge der Pflanzenverbreitung auf der iberischen Halbinsel. Von Moritz Willkomm. Leipzig: Engelmann, 1896. Pp. xiv + 395. Price 12 M.; bound 13.50 M.

Alpine Notes and the Climbing Foot. By George Wherry, M.A., M.C. Cantab., F.E.C.S., etc. Cambridge: Macmillan and Bowes, 1896. Pp. xi + 174. Price 5s. net.

Dolomite Strongholds—the last untrodden Alpine Peaks. An Account of Ascents of the Croda da Lago, the Little and Great Zinnen, the Cinque Torri, the Fünffinger Spitze, and the Langkofel. By the Rev. J. Sanger Davies, M.A. Second Edition. London: George Bell and Sons, 1896. Pp. 176. Price 3s. 6d.

Bibliographie de l'Année 1895 (Annales de Géographie, No. 23). Paris: Armand Colin et Cie., 1896. Pp. 288.

Nouveau Dictionnaire de Géographie Universelle. Ouvrage commence par M. Vivien de Saint‐Martin et continué par Louis Eousselet. Supplément, Fasc. 1–4—Aa‐Berlin. Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie., 1895–6.     

Icenia: Notices of Roman Remains,and Evidences of Occupation,Discovered in Norfolk

This paper attempts to demonstrate four things: (1) There is no adequate documentary basis for Petrie's ‘Northern’ system of lengths. (2) We do not know of any system into which Anglo-Saxon lengths were organized. (3) The perch of 5.03 m is the only Anglo-Saxon unit of which the length is known. (4) There is insufficient evidence to support the view that the Drusian foot of 33.3 cm was widely used by the Germanic tribes in general or in Anglo-Saxon England in particular. Conversely the modern English foot of 30.48 cm has more to recommend it as Anglo-Saxon than has previously been recognized.     

Convict bastards, common-law unions, and shotgun weddings: premarital conceptions and ex-nuptial births in nineteenth-century Tasmania

This article uses reconstituted family data from birth, death, and marriage registers to measure ex-nuptial fertility and premarital pregnancies in nineteenth-century Tasmania. It also examines the extent to which convict origins of European society on the island caused a departure from English norms of family formation behavior, during a period when men greatly outnumbered women. Illegitimacy was high during the convict period. From the mid-1850s, after the convict system collapsed, levels of ex-nupital births were relatively constant until the end of the century, as indicated both by the illegitimacy rate and by the proportion of marriages associated with prenuptial births. By the end of the nineteenth-century, rates of illegitimacy and prenuptial conceptions in Tasmania were well within the range of those of contemporary English-speaking populations.