5 OCTOBER 1912, Page 9

It is difficult to keep count of the handbooks published

relating to cathedral; especially those of France. Mr. T. F. Bumpus has

added another volume to the list, Cathedrals of Northern France (T. Werner Laurie, 6s. net), which is certainly not among the least useful, for his information is precise, and he has an interesting way of accounting for structural peculiarities by show- ing that the builder was aiming at some special effect.