Devonshire Parishes. By Charles Worthy. Vol. I. (Redway.) — In
the present volume, Mr. Charles Worthy has given us fourteen out of the twenty-eight parishes in the archdeaconry of Totnes. As a rule, the history of a parish sooner or later resolves itself into that of some family or succession of families.
It is so here. Yet Mr. Worthy does not neglect the scenery, or anything that may be peculiar to a particular parish, its ancient tenure and owners. But when the church has been described,
there remains naturally the family who have been prominent by
power, or who have become from antiquity inseparable from the local traditions. For those who love the often stirring and occa- sionally tragic history of a race, and the links which join to-day with long ago, there axe names of interest,—Sheepstor and the Elfords, Walkhampton and the Redvers, Buckland Monachorum
and the Grenvilles and Drakes, Milton Abbot and the Russell, and such names as Wise, Tremayne, and Rowe. The sketches of the borough of Lidford and its associations, and Dartmouth and the Great Rebellion, also possess a wide interest. This is a hand- some boolr, Whieb antiquaries will be sure to appreciate.
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