Chronicles of the Castle of Amelroy. By John Box, C.E.
(Sampson Low.) —This handsome volume is an interesting monograph on a relic of medico- val times. The Castle of Amelroy is situated near the village of Ammer-
node, on the Meuse. Though it suffered from fire and has been restored in
recent times, apparently without much taste, to judge from the photo- HODDER graphs of the exterior, it undoubtedly combines much ancient work, the -walls, seven feet in thickness, among it. It was built, it would appear, in the twelfth century, and passed, after not a few vicissitudes, by the marriage of the heiress of the Brockhuysens, into the hands of the Van Arkel family. From the Van Arkel family the present owner, the Baron Arthur de Walmont is descended, the descent, however, having re- peatedly passed through the female line. Mr. Box gives some curious episodes from the history of the castle and its owners, which he illus- trates with photographs of portraits, documents, &c. Among the former are the reproductions of two portraits of remarkable merit, the Baron de la Kethule and Ryhove, Governor of Bergen-op-Zoom, and his wife, by Paul Moreelze, A.D. 1622; among the latter, autographs of Prince Maurice of Nassau, the Prince of Orange, William of Nassau, Turenne,
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