Picturesque Cheshire. By T. A. Coward. (Sherratt and Hughes, Manchester.
5s. net.)—Cheshire has a great variety of interesting places in it. Its capital tovrii, with its old houses and almost complete circle of walls, has hardly a rival in England. Then there is the Salt Country," reaching from Northwich southward; there are the meres, not so important as those of Shropshire, but of. some size (in one of them smelts have been acclimatised with success) ; there are old houses in abundance, and a great 'store of historical associations. Out of these materials Mr. Coward has constructed a very pleasant book. A visitor to the county could not desire a better informed or more agreeable guide. The numerous illustrations are by Mr. Roger -Oldham, and greatly increase the attractiveness of the volume. Mr. Coward will excuse us if we suggest a correction of his statement that "three of the four principal streets [of Chester] are named after the gates." " North-gate " •-• North Street, quite apart from the fact that it probably ended in one of the city gates. The word " gate " is familiar in Northern dialects for " way." In East Retford, a town which never had walls or gates, the two chief streets are called Carolgate and Bridgegate.
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