17 JUNE 1893, Page 24

Men of Kent and Kentish Men : a Manual of

Kentish Biography. By John Hutchinson. (Cross and Jackman, Canterbury.)—Mr_ Hutchinson seems to use the terms, " Men of Kent " and " Ken- tish Mon," indifferently ; perhaps he knows the difference, but prefers to make no invidious distinctions. He gives us about two hundred and forty biographies, brief and somewhat bare, it must be confessed, but not without interest ; of literary names, the most conspicuous are William Caxton (the Weald of Kent), Sir Philip Sidney, Marlowe, Richard Lovelace, Sir Charles Sedley, William Hazlitt, and R. H. Barham (Ingoldsby).