The People of the Channel Islands

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certainly thought of gnrnnining of the sort, and the ParoKssum vallnm would fit aptly an emperor who built the Boman wall in 'foigfond and was certainly concerned in the lines imperh in Germany. F. HAVKBJIKLD. THE PEOPLE Or THE OHASBBL IHLAHD8. MB. Ttvrxm, in his article on ' The Channel Tainting ' in the present volume of this Review (p. 28), puts forward the theory that the people of those ininnflg are now of Breton and not of Norman blood. Mr. Keene supports his view by-among others-the two following arguments. One, the fact that the name Normand is used in the islands as a term of reproach. Surely the explanation of thin, given by old Falls, the Jersey historian, is equally probable: that this usage dates from the time when insular Normandy, having to choose between allegiance to John or to Philip Augustus, kaolin»«? to follow the example of the continental Normans in t-^""T submission to French rule. TTin second argument is that there is little Norman architecture in the inlands-It might really be a sufficient answer to say that there is no Breton architecture at alL Mr. Keene does not, perhaps, realise that Norman, in its architectural sense, designates a style by no numnq peculiar to Normandy, and now, indeed, generally known by the more correct title of Bomanesque. During the period in which it obtained, its use was general in Europe, ftTl ^ its disuse in Normandy coincided with its <K»n«<i m pfagin.-nd. and France. Had Mr. Keene seen the Jersey churches forty years ago, before their restoration, or if he could see what remains even now, hidden under new plaster, at St. Hatters and elsewhere, he would be convinced tVm. t in most, if not in all, cases, Norman h« been their ^ng" 11 ŝtyle.