The Place-Names of Nottinghamshire. By Heinrich Mutschmann. (Cambridge University Press.
7s. 6d. net.)— The Place-Names of Somerset. By James S. Hill. (Bristol : St. Stephen's Printing Works.)—The study of the names of places, their origin and meaning, leads one into many interest- ing byways of history. Thus the two books now before us are full of interesting material. Dr. Mutschmann, who is a lecturer at Nottingham University College, hopes that his essay will "stimulate research in a much neglected province of Germanic philology." The Rector of Stowey, whose able work first appeared in the pages of a Bristol paper, aims rather at giving "such account of the names of places in the county of Somerset as might excite the interest, not merely of the archaeologist, but of that baffling and mysterious person, 'the general reader." We hope that every county in Great Britain may find an equally faithful and enthusiastic student of its topographical philology.
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