2 JUNE 1883, Page 23

The History of Scarborough. By Joseph Brogden Baker. (Long- mans.)—Mr.

Baker has collected a great mass of information in this volume. Some of it is valuable and interesting, some of it might have been profitably retrenched. All would have been set forth to more advantage by a better and more orderly arrangement, and by the addition of what it is really surprising to find wanting in such a volume,—an index.