19 NOVEMBER 1887, Page 49

Stories from Old English History. By the Rev. A. D.

Crake. (Mowbray, Oxford and London.)—Mr. Crake tells twelve stories of England before the Conquest, beginning with the fall of Anderids, at the close of the fifth century, and going down as far as the tragic) story of Edwin, Athelwold, and Elfrida, and of Edward the Martyr.

Some of these stories are substantially due to the writer, though he has taken some fact as a foundation ; others are matters of history told in his own words. They will certainly do something for the study of oar early history.