Memovials of Copgrove. By Henry D. A. Major. (Oxford :
Blackwell. aos. net.)—Mr. Major, who was formerly Rector of Copgrove, has produced a model parish history, which seems to- contain all the authentic information obtainable and is admirably written. The old parish registers from 1584 to 1790 are printed in full, the six-inch Ordnance map is reproduced, there are a number of illustrations, and there is a good index. Copgrove is a very small and remote parish, a few miles from Knaresborough. No important event occurred there ; no historic personage was born in the place. For all that, Mr.
Ixizvy of this typical little North-country village is of considerable interest. Mediaeval pilgrims frequented St. Mungo's Well in Copgrove, but Harrogate was more accessible to later generations. Wilberforce used to visit his friend and fellow-member, Henry Duncombe, at Copgrove Hall, which, he told his wife, was "just such a place as you and I should like to live in—quiet and beautiful without pomp."
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