HEREFORDSHIRE MONUMENTS
The Royal Commission on Historical Monuments has added to its excellent series a second volume of An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire, dealing with the east of the county (H.M. Stationery Office; 30s.). Nothing could be more fascinating than the two hundred photographic plates, often with four or more subjects to the page, and nothing more scholarly than the descriptions of churches, Manor houses, cottages, prehistoric camps and so forth, arranged under parishes alphabetically. Like the previous Hereford volume, it is a revelation of the wealth of good mediaeval, Tudor and Jacobean _work in the county, and especially of fine half- timbered houses and of furniture and -fittings. • The Hereford- shire carpenters were men of rare skill and taste. There is but one Roman site of some importance, that of Magna (Kenchester) near Hereford, but the Norman and Early English work is abundant and often first-rate. Ledbury, of course, the gem of this district and receives full treatment. But many of the villages, Bosbury and Much Marcie for instance, are full of interest and charm. Here we Can only taIl attention to this beautiful book and recommend those interested in English architecture, sculpture and woodwork to include Herefordshire in their next tour.
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