A History of Altrinchant and Bowdon. By Alfred Ingham. (Mackie
and Browtnall, Altrincham.)—Mr. Ingham deserves many thanks for the labour and care with which he has put together this volume. Its chief interest is naturally local, but it contains not a few items of history, both social and political, which are well worth record. We may mention among them the account of what has long been the dominant family of the neighbourhood, that of the Booths, now represented by the Earl of Stamford and Warrington. The family, once at least, did good service to the country, when the second Lord Delamer•o raised a force to support William of Orange. Wo notice among the statistical tables at the end, the remarkable fact that the rateable value of the district has increased from a little more than £41,000 in 1541 to nearly 2220,000 in 1877. If the owners of real property have a period of depression before them, it must bo remembered that their present income represents an enormous increase, made during a period of little more than one generation.
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