By-gone Nottinghamshire. By William Stevenson. (Frank Murray, Nottingham ; Simpkin
Marshall and Co., London.)—This is the kind of book that makes antiquarian writings a by-word for dullness and irrelevance. It has not even the merit of accuracy. "Alfred," we are told—though why the pretentious "Alfred," when in the same sentence we are given the ordinary Ethelred ?— " became king of the West Saxons, i.e., Cornwall and Devonshire, the eastern boundary being a lino drawn from the Wash to the Isle of Wight." " Thurgarton Hall is the residence of his grace the Bishop of Nottingham, whose Cathedral Church of Southwell is only about three miles distant." -For the irrelevance, it is
enough to say that because a Nottingham man took sanctuary at Beverley, we are treated to a chapter on Beverley sanctuary. The illustrations are not superior to the text.
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