Dr. Cotton, the vicar of Boston, Lincolnshire, with some of
his Puritan parishioners, was one of the founders of Boston, Massachusetts, three centuries ago. Thus there should he more than a local appeal in the attractive and scholarly volume on Boston, Taaershall and Croyland, by Mr. M. 14. Lambert and Mr. R. Walker (Oshml : Blackwell, Os.). The authors' historical account of the town and its noble church of St. Botolph, with the majestic tower known us " Boston Stump," is competently done. They note that the grammar school was re-founded not by Edward VI, who has been quite wrongly commended for educational zeal, but by his maligned sister Mary. Boston was a thriving port in the Middle Ages, as its old houses show, but lost its trade when the New World was discovered and has revived only in recent times. Two brief closing chapters deal with Tatter- shall and Croyland, and there are some agreeable illustrations.
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