Lincoln's Inn Fields and the Localities Adjacent. By C. W.
Heckethorn. (Elliot Stock.)—This is one of the books which a writer who is not an expert in the subject may commend to the public without hesitation. The illustrations are undoubtedly good, the matter is unquestionably interesting, well put together, and if not exhaustive—it is impossible to be exhaustive about an old London locality—sufficiently full. Lincoln's Inn, including the "Fields," has as much right as any other place to call itself the omphalos of the earth. Even if that title is denied to it, it is singularly full of associations. One of the most recent and not the least curious is the Pneumatic Despatch Company started in 1863 to send parcels by pneumatic force. Unhappily it was before its time, but the principle has been profitably utilised. The chimney which the company built still stands in that un- savoury locality, Whetstone Park.
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