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Memorials of Old Worcestershire. Edited. by Francis B. Andrews. (George

Allen and Co. 15s. net.)-It might be sufficient to say that this volume is worthy of the excellent series to which it belongs. The few places which happen to come within the knowledge of the writer of this notice seem to be adequately treated. He finds, for instance, such a detail as the unusual stone (tufa) of which a particular church is built. There is a specially interesting chapter on the " Benedictine Houses of the County," by the editor. The chief of these was Evesham, which indeed stood high among the English foundations of the Order. It had the unusual number of eighty-nine monks at the Dissolution. It is a curious and significant detail that these eighty-nine had sixty servants. The revenues were £1,829 10s.