Topography, XI. Edited by F. A. Milne, M.A. "The Gentle-
plan's Magazine Library." (Elliot Stock.) —The useful work of arranging the vast stores of miscellaneous information con- tained in the Gentleman's Magazine proceeds under the general editorship of Mr. G. L. Gomme. The volume now before us con- tains two counties only, Staffordshire and Suffolk. The notices, it will be seen, are more than usually ample, and the counties show something of a contrast in character. It must be confessed that there is something tantalising about these scraps of infor_ illation. Many of them are like so many unfinished stories. What has become, for instance, of the pair of shoes, not unlike pumps, and made for right and left feet, which were taken out cf a tomb of the thirteenth century at Lichfield ? The story seems a strange one ; often it would be possible, and certainly interest- ing, to hear how things stand at present. What, for instance, about the 'schoolroom at Lichfield, " now [1794] in a state of dilapidation and unfit for the use of the master of the boys " ? It had then numbered among its celebrities Addison, Johnson, and Garrick. But, alas ! these things would swell out the volume to an unmanageable bulk. We do not suggest any blame of the editor, who has done his work with care and discretion.
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