Shropshire Folk-Lore. By Charlotte S. Burne. From the Col- lections
of Georgina F. Jackson. Part III. (Triibner and Co.)—Miss Berne concludes in this part an interesting and valuable work, a monument of piety, first towards the friend whose collections she edits and supplements, and next towards her county, and, we may add, her country. It would be well if more would follow the example set by these two ladies. If every county had its proper historian, not only some one who will write about the grand people who have lived in its great houses—and great houses and grand people are mach alike—but about their "dim, common populations," about their customs, beliefs, amusements, a good work would be done. There are great veins of ethnological knowledge—to speak of one branch of research alone—lying hidden in this mine. Meanwhile, a little book containing the cream of the present collection would, we fancy, be welcome.
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