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a guinea or half-a-guinea towards it. Subscriptions should be 

 sent as early as possible (for the work should commence in 

 June) to the Financial Secretary, Mr. W. Mallalieu, Swallows' 

 Rest, Ockbrook, Derby, and all will be duly recorded in the 

 next volume of the Journal, under the heading of " The Brough 

 Exploration Fund." 



" A History of Matlock," by Mr. B. Bryan. This work, 

 to be published by subscription through Messrs. Bemrose & Sons, 

 Ltd., will treat with the early history of Matlock as part of 

 the " Mestesforde " of Domesday, and with its later notoriety 

 as a fashionable watering-place, as the home of Sir Richard 

 Arkwright, the inventor of the spinning jenny, and as the 

 birthplace of Adam Wolley, whose name is so familiar to the 

 readers of this Journal, under the reference of " The Wolley 

 Charters," from the wealth of MS. records which he bequeathed 

 to the British Museum. 



" A Guide Book to Derbyshire.'" — Messrs. Methuen are 

 shortly publishing one of their charming series of well-illustrated 

 Uttlc guides on the county of Derby. The author is the 

 Rev. Dr. Cox, F.S.A., so that it may not only be safely said 

 in anticipation that antiquaries can rely on its archaeological 

 accuracy, but that it will have a charm of its own, indepen- 

 dently of the series of which it will form part. 



" The Victoria History of Derbyshire." — Good progress 

 is being made with this section of the great national scheme 

 of the Victoria County Histories. The greater part of the 

 first volume is already accomplished. Mr. Ward will be res- 

 ponsible for the prehistoric portion ; Mr. Haverfield will write 

 on Roman Derbyshire ; Mr. Round on the Derbyshire Domes- 

 day ; and, as was only to be expected, to the experienced Dr. Cox 

 is left the ecclesiology of our county. He is one of the most 

 active of the distinguished consultative committee of this 

 important scheme, and is already similarly engaged in writing 

 the ecclesiastical history of Hampshire, Essex, Warwick.shire, 



