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NOTTING HILL IN BYGONE DAYS. By Florence Gladstone. (Fisher Unwin.

218.) MISS GLADSTONE begins with the sons of Cyncsige who dis- covered a favourable spot above the marshland of Fulham about A.D. 700 and carries the history of Kensington through to the present day. The book is too full of information to make easy reading, but it is worth concentration, and will certainly send the reader out to see what respectable streets cover the footpaths that used to run from outlying farms to the Kensington highway. It is surprising to learn that Notting Hill was a village in the 'sixties, its pigkeepers' hovels preparing the way for the present slums.