OUNDLE'S STORY. (London : The Sheldon Press. 4s. 6d.) Most
of us have only heard of Oundle because it was there that the late Mr. F. W. Sanderson (whom Mr. H. G. Wells has called " one of the greatest teachers and statesmen that the world has seen ") built up and presided over his remark- able school. The present little book by Canon Smalley Law, though it is dedicated to the memory of Sanderson, deals but incidentally with the school and its ancient foundation, and is chiefly devoted to the records and local history of the old market town and its great church, the result being a very readable sketch of Oundle's past enlivened by quotations from old registers, " Domestic State Papers," and private letters. We know only too well the usual sort of local-monograph by the local antiquary and historian, but Mr. Law knows how to make a book and has special justification for this com- pilation because the place is intrinsically interesting and because he will have a large public in the boys of the school who will here find English social history, architecture, and their town's topography presented to them in an entertaining mixture. •
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