19 JUNE 1915, Page 22

Professor W. J. Sedgefield, who holds the Chair of English

Language at Manchester University, has written a deeply

interesting study upon The Place-Names of Cumberland and Westmorland (Longmans and Co. for the Manchester Univer- sity Press, 10s. 6d. net). The striking feature of the place- names of this part of England is the large proportion which show a Scandinavian origin. These are traces left by the large Norse settlements that took place there during the tenth and eleventh centuries, and even earlier.