COUNTY AND TOWN IN ENGLAND.
County and Town in England, Together with Some Annals of Churnside. By Grant Allen. With an Introduction by Frederick York Powell, Regius Professor of Modern History, Oxford University. (Grant Richards. 6s.)—This is a book of a rather unusual character, and full of little-known information. It dis- cusses the origin of some thirty English counties ; their early history ; how they came to bear their present names ; and how they came to be expanded or reduced to their present limits. A. second section treats of eighteen towns in a similar way, but more in detail, a brief outline of their history being continued to the present time; while the third portion of the book gives a tolerably full history of an imaginary coast-town in the West, and its surroundings, from the earliest period to the present time, on the lines of Viollet-le-Due's well-known "History of a Fortress," as pointed out by Professor York Powell in his introduction. He also informs us that the book appeared in chapters in the Pall Mall Gazette for 1881-82. The book will be found useful and interesting to any readers who care for the early history of their country ; but it hardly admits of detailed notice. We may say, however, that we have not observed any error of importance in glancing through its pages.
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