SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this howling w. notice such Books of ths toes% as have not been reserved for review in otlisr forme.] • The Ancient Crosses and Holy Wells of Lancashire. By Henry Taylor. (Sherratt and Hughes, Manchester. 42s. net.)—Mr. Taylor's original purpose was to write a description of the Lanca- shire crosses. He found that the subject could not be adequately treated without some notice of holy wells, and this addition led him to give notes on monasteries and pre-Reformation churches and chapels. The frontispiece is a map which exhibits the distribu- tion through the six Hundreds of Lancashire of the religious foundations'. It is interesting to see how these, for the most part, clustered together. The total number is twenty-four, and four of these stand close together about the estuary of the Lime. Preston was similarly favoured. South Lonsdale contains one- third of the whole number. The book is one which we cannot notice in detail, but we may say that it will be found full of interesting and valuable matters, and this by a wider circle than that of local readers.
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