27 JANUARY 1906, Page 41

Leland's Itinerary in Wales. Arranged and Edited by Lucy Tonlmin

Smith. (G. Bell and Sons. 10s. 6d. net.)—Miss Toulmin Smith has gone for her text to the manuscript authority,—i.e., to Leland's own MSS. (the " Itinerary " and the " Collectanea") and to the copy made by john Stow about a quarter of a century after Leland's death. The whole of the material has appeared in print, but never so arranged,—that is, giving a separate form to all the Welsh not itia. Leland's journeyings in Wales took place between the years 1536-1539, a notable time, not only because the dissolution of the monasteries was then progressing, but because the Welsh and English territorial divisions were in process of reconstitution.