A Relation of a Short Survey of Twenty - sir Counties. Edited
by L. G. Wickham Legg. (F. E. Robinson and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)— This is one of the "Stuart Series," bound after the pattern of one of the Little Gidding books, probably the handiwork of Mary Collet. The book itself is the record of a seven weeks' tour made by "a Captain, a Lieutenant, and an Ancient of the Military Company in Norwich," beginning August 11th, 1634. The three started from Lynn, and passed the next night at Sleaford. Lincoln, Newark, Sherwood Forest, Retford, Doncaster, Ponte- fract, and finally York occupied the first week. There are some very attractive pictures of life in the book, such, for instance, as that of the entertainment of the travellers at Durham by the Dean. The Dean walks with his guests for half-an-hour in his garden; then all sit down to dinner; "after belie an houre's sitting there came a young Scholler, and read a Chapter, during which time all discourse ceased : no sooner was it ended but the grave Master of the House begins a cup of wine to all his Guests." We need hardly say that the volume is full of interesting things, and that the editor's notes add to
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