1 OCTOBER 1910, Page 53

The Civil War in Lancashire, 1642 - 101. By Ernest Broxap, M.A.

(Manchester University Press. Is. Gd. net.)—The Royalists made less of a fight in Lancashire than might have been expected, when the character of the people, with its strong Roman Catholic element, is considered. Perhaps if the Earl of Derby had been an abler man things might have been different. As it was, their successes were of no great importance, and their defeats, as the failure to take Manchester and the loss of Preston, decisive. The best-known incident of the war, the siege of Lathom House, was not of much importance. Whatever happened there, the issue of the war was decided. Mr. Broxap has done his work, as far as we can judge, carefully and completely.