27 JULY 1929, Page 28

The many people who, when driving or walking through the

countryside, make a practice of inspecting every church, will be delighted with Mr. E. A. Greening Lamborn's excellent little book on The English Parish Church (Clarendon Press, 8-s:6d.). It tells the amateur exactly what he wants to know about the plan, the styles, the fabric, the trrohnInents and glass in a mediaeval F.nglishf chtirch, and it is so abundantly illus- trated with line-drawings that 'no one can -misinterpret the author's text. The traveller with this book in his pocket will be able to interpret the eVidence that ahy'old church bears on its time-worn walls, and to discover new points of interest in the buildings that he thinks he knows well.