The Cathedral Church of Winchester, by Philip W. Sergeant (G.
Bell and Sons), and The Cathedral Church of Lichfield, by A. B. Clifton (same publishers), are two volumes in "Bell's Cathe- dral Series" intended to give information, accurate, but not to3 technical, about the structure of the English cathedrals, their architectural history, monuments, and associations with persons and events. We have spoken before with praise of the series, and believe the volumes to be equal to the companionship in which they are found. Both cathedrals are above the average in the interest of their architecture, and, it may be added, in the per- sonnel of their Bishops. We wish that more space could have been found for the latter part of the subject, but we are aware of the difficulty, and no one can fairly complain of any lack of matter in these volumes. We may remind Mr. Sergeant that it was Beaufort, not Gardiner, who is said to have lamented on his death-bed : " Negavi cum Petro; exivi cum Petro ; nondum flevi cum Petro."—With these may be mentioned a kindred work of considerable interest, London Riverside Churches, by A. E. Daniell (Archibald Constable). Mr. Daniell begins with All Saints, Kingston-upon-Thames, and ends with St. Nicholas, Deptford. We have no objection to his taking so wide a range, though it is only by a figure of speech that Kingston can be said to be in London. Is it included because the Cor- poration has or had jurisdiction as far as Staines ? Si. Martin- in-the-Fields is scarcely riverside ; not so much so as the Strand churches, for these, as the names indicate, were once on the actual
margin. And why nothing about a really riverside church, interesting as regards its history, and of some stateliness of aspect,—St. Magnus the Martyr, by London Bridge ? The book is prettily illustrated.
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