History of Suffolk. By the Rev. J. J. Raven. (Elliot
Stock.) -Whether to tell the history of a whole county in chronological order is better than to divide it into separate subjects, we are not prepared to decide. It demands much skill to carry the county with you, as it were, and this Mr. Raven has certainly succeeded in doing. It is interesting and by no means too exhaustive, and the author has spared no pains evidently in researches, or in presenting us with facts and extracts that enable us to follow the development of the county and the vicissitudes of its people under successive monarchs. Mr. Raven has taken great pains to elaborate all that could be gathered about Roman and Saxon times. He has probably felt with others that fascination with which the remains of the Suffolk commercial importance and its once dense population imbue thoughtful people.
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