5 JANUARY 1901, Page 26

The Hampstead Annual. Edited by Greville E. Matheson and Sydney

C. Mayle. (S. C. Mayle. 2s. 6d. net.)—The Annual presents a quite imposing list of contributors : Dr. Garnett, Professor Hales, and Messrs. Ernest Rhys, Arnold White, and I. Zangwill being among them. The first article is "A Hamp- stead Painter " (Paul Falconer Poole, R. A.), by Dr. Garnett. Other artistic matter is to be found in Mr. Fulleylove's "Recollections of Charles and Towneley Green." Miss H. E. Noyes writes about a Hampstead in America (New Hampshire). Professor Hales writes about " Jack Straw's Castle," but abso- lutely prohibits the idea that the real Jack Straw (one of the

rebellious priests of the Wat Tyler insurrection) had any connec- tion with the Hampstead hostelry, or indeed Hampstead at all. The Annual appeals to readers both in and out of Hampstea,d.