28 MAY 1887, Page 22

How to Write the History of a Parish. By Charles

Cox, LLD.. (Bemrose and Sons.)—This is an admirable little vadasnecum, not merely for the would-be historian of a parish, bat for any one engaged in historical or antiquarian research. It tells you what are the chief repositories of historical information, such as Domesday.. Book, the Pipe Rolls, and so forth, where they are to be found, and what kind of facts may be found in each. It also tells you the best handbooks, introductions, and summaries of architecture, monu- ments, folk-lore, place.namea, and other aids to history, whether the documents be in books or brooks, stones or bones, brass or glass.