2 OCTOBER 1926, Page 30

Criticism is disarmed when an author tells us that she

has had no intention of producing a book. But, currente rota, a useful contribution to the county history of Kent and of Essex, has resulted in Miss Lilian Boys Behrens' Under Thirty-Seven Kings (Saint Catherine Press, .42s.), which annotates the history of the Boys family from the Conquest to the present day. It was a Boys, by the way-or the corpse of one-that Ingoldsby popped "again in the pond" as a bait for eels. In paper, type, illustration and margin the book will be a philobiblist's delight as well as a store of information for the county historian.