27 APRIL 1895, Page 11

Handbook for Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, and Huntingdonshire. (John Murray.)—This volume is,

we are informed, a composite work. The late editor contributed the greater portion of the account of Bedfordshire. The present editor has compiled the account of Hertfordshire "as far as possible from personal observation," while he has been able to utilise for Huntingdon- shire, collections made by the late "Cuthbert Bede," with a view to writing a history of that county. The result is, as far as we have been able to examine and to appreciate it, satisfactory. To keep up the reputation of the series to which it belongs is a sufficiently high aim, and it seems to have been adequately attained.