Memorials of Old Middlesex. Edited by J. Taverner Perry. (Bemrose
and Sons. 15s. net.)—Middlesex, even with London and Westminster left out, is a large subject, embarrassingly large ; and it would not be difficult to point out omissions. Such criticism, however, would not be fair. These volumes do not pretend to be county histories; they give us memorabilia, a selection out of many things that might be related, and a very good selection too. Dr. Cox finds a congenial subject in the Middlesex churches, some of them quite remarkable, though, as might be supposed from their situation, the restorer has been busy among them, not always with good taste. Imagine putting a semi-Gothic chancel screen into the classical Church of Canons, the work of the Duke of Chandos (Pope's Timon)! Then Mr. Aymer Valiance writes on "Roods, Screens, and Lofts," Mr. S. W. Kershaw on "Fulham Palace and the Bishops of London," and Mr. W. D. Bushell on "Harrow-on-the-Hill." There are other papers of not loss interest. The volume is even exceptionally attractive.
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