28 SEPTEMBER 1929, Page 29

Mr. William H. Terry has devoted a slender volume to

Judge Jenkins (Grant Richards and H. Toulmin, 10s. 6d.), who defied the Long Parliament and was detained in prison. The Welsh judge, who was born in 1582 and died in 1663, was evidently a stout fellow. Imprisonment and even the threat-perhaps not seriously meant-of execution could not weaken his loyalty to King Charles. But it cannot be said that the papers in which he argued that the Parliament had usurped the power which it undoubtedly exercised are either interesting or important, and these papers form the main part of a disappointing book.

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