25 JUNE 1910, Page 49

MEMORIALS OF OLD YORKSHIRE.

Memorials of Old Yorkshire. Edited by T. M. Fallow, M.A. (G. Allen and Sons. 15s. net.)—This volume is well up to the high standard of the excellent series to which it belongs. We would specially mention the article on the " Village Churches of Yorkshire" by Mr. A. Hamilton Thompson. It is written with a mastery of the subject which shows itself in the remarkably lucid exposition of architectural history. It is supplemented by Mr. C. E. Keyser's description of the "Norman Doorways of Yorkshire." (A further volume, we see, is to be issued on the Religious Houses of the county.) Dr. Solloway contributes a good paper on York Minster, and Canon Nolloth one on Beverley Minster. An amusing paper from the pen of Miss M. W. E. Fowler deals with " Yorkshire Folk-Lore." Of course some of the curiosities which she mentions are to be found in many other places. Who has not thrown the peel of an apple, cut without a break, over the left shoulder and marked the shape in which it fell P