Annals of the Church and Parish of Aldmonbury. By Charles
Augustus Hulbert, M.A. (Longmana and Co.)—The vicar of Al& monbary, Yorkshire, presents us with one of those local histories which, even when they are, as here, written essentially from the ecclesiastical point of view, are of high value as throwing light upon the growth of the nation at large. Canon Hulbert is, if we may judge from some of his verses which he reprints, but an indifferent poet. We are rather glad on the whole, too, from the air of sancta simplicitas which pervades this book, that he did not "consult the highest aim of his mind," and "republish his 'Gospel Revealed to Job,' long since out of print." Perhaps the importance of " the squire and his relations " in a parish might have been better concealed than it is here. But Mr. Hulbert is clearly an earnest, simply devout man, who has written these annals under the pressure of parochial work and, as we are sorry to see from pp. 511-512, severe domestic afflic- tion ; and, what is more to the point, he is a zealous and painstaking archmologist and topographer. He has, further, published some curious tombstone inscriptions and extracts from parish registers three hundred years old. Here are verses on the tomb of one Richard Beaumont, which we do not remember to have seen—it would be rash to say they have not been—included in recent collections
The Lord in church, his' lower room,' Lang heard him lead the Choir, Then called him to his heavenly borne,— 'Come, Faithful Servant, higher:"
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