10 SEPTEMBER 1898, Page 25

Index to Collinson's History of Somerset. (Barnicott and Pearce, Taunton.

20s.)—A county history without a reasonable index— such was the original edition of Collinson —is a most tiresome work of reference. Happily the deficiency has now been made good by Mr. Pearce, under the editorship of the Revs. F. W. Weaver and E. H. Bates, and the auspices of the Somerset Archmological Society. This work is over three hundred pages in length, and an excellent piece of work.