Excerpt from The Rutland Magazine and County Historical Record, Vol. 1: 1903-4
It is perhaps necessary, when issuing the first number of a new Magazine, that something should be said to justify its appearance in the already overcrowded world of literature, on the ground that it has a place to fill in the shape of a want which it hopes to satisfy.
The study of Archaeology and kindred subjects has, of late years, acquired a new popularity; not only with those who were formerly looked upon as harmless, though eccentric, individuals, whose lives seemed to be spent in the contemplation of old books, pictures, coins, fragments of pottery, and bones and stones, - which were looked upon as priceless treasures, - but also with those people who have a real belief in the progress of humanity, and who know that all progress, which is sound, healthy and enduring, must be built on the solid foundation of pre-existing fact.
The special study of the Antiquary is to examine and compare, in the light of history, all those records of the past which Old Father Time has preserved, and from them endeavour to give some insight into the manners, customs and habits of our forefathers.
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