The Memorials of Liverpool, by J. A. Piston, 2 vols.
(Longmans), is the second edition of a careful and complete work which seems to have met with some, at least, of the success which it deserves. Mr. Picton's first volume is " historical ;" his second " topographical," and when we say that the first contains six hundred and the second nearly five hundred closely-printed pages, the reader• will see that the author does not hurry over his subject. Of more recent events recorded in the first volume, the reader will find the history of the borough elections interest- ing. In fact there is much throughout the book of more than local value. We notice that in telling the story of Edmund Keen's reproof to the Liverpool audience for their scanty applause, Mr. Piston, possibly afraid of his townsmen's susceptibilities, says nothing of what we have always hoard as the sting of Kean's speech,—" This town, every stone of which is cemented with the blood of a slave," &c.
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