8 APRIL 1905, Page 24

Tales of the Church in England. By G. E. Burrows.

(A. R Mowbray and Co. 2s. 6d.)—The three tales belong to the first, the ninth, and the twelfth centuries of the Christian era. They are told with considerable spirit, but it may be doubted whether they are always in harmony with facts,—we do not mean histori- cally true, but in harmony with history. The first certainly would have been better for revision by an expert. The names are not a little confused. " Didices, the propraetor," "a native of Ligones," and " Boescus "—he is the hero of the story—have a queer sound. Bath, too, is spoken of as " aqua-solis." The singular, aqua is used of a lake, an aqueduct, Ac.: a place of medicinal springs was in the plural, aquae.