A very useful and interesting guide to a knowledge of
English and Welsh cathedrals will be found in Our English Cathedrals, by the Rev. James Sibree, two volumes (Francis Griffiths, 50. net).— We have an account of the architecture and structures generally, the text being illustrated by reproductions of photographs (varying in number according to the occasions afforded by the subject—Ely has eight and Liverpool one). Then the history and the various associations of the buildings are given. The two volumes do not correspond to the two provinces, for the obvious reason of the inequality of their division. Vol. i., together with certain prolegomena, gives us details of thirteen cathedrals, northern and eastern, with Lichfield. Vol. ii. treats of the remaining twenty- four, its concluding chapter being allotted to the four "Parish Church Cathedrals" and the " Welsh."
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