25 APRIL 1903, Page 14

Shakespeare's Church. By J. Harvey Bloom. (T. Fisher Unwin. 7s.

6d. net.)—This is a very painstaking story of an interesting building. The Collegiate Church of Stratford-on-Avon has suffered not a little from an indiscreet zeal. Its fame made it a prey to the early restorer, whom it would be ungracious to blame, for he did his best, according to his lights, but whose activity, nevertheless, we cannot help regretting. We may even say that the benefactors of the earlier half of the nineteenth century might well have been more handsomely recognised,—William Weston, for instance, who in 1842 gave the " altar " and pavement. The volume is handsomely illustrated, and is, in short, a worthy memorial of the things which it describes.