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drawings, as well as 469 plans, sections, diagrams, and 

 moldings. Many of the photographs are from Mr. Bond's 

 own camera, and there seems hardly a nook of England which 

 he has not visited in search of striking examples. 



The book is a perfect delight to the experienced 

 ecclesiologist, and yet written so clearly and on such practical 

 lines that its teaching can readily be grasped by the novice. 

 It is a book that cannot fail to be of real service to a University 

 Extension lecturer, or tO' an advanced architectural student ; 

 at the same time, it is exactly the work that could with much 

 advantage be put in the hands of intelligent senior school boys or 

 girls who may be beginning to take a wholesome interest in 

 the history in stone of their native land. 



Derbyshire, notwithstanding its limited size and comparative 

 paucity of ancient churches, supplies Mr. Bond with several 

 useful examples and details when discussing the component 

 ])arts of church fabrics; and his opinions are of almost 

 authoritative value to the ecclesiologist in the study of this 

 Midland .shire. 



Repton is naturally cited as a famous and exceptional 

 example of a pillared crypt of pre-Conquest date ; its 

 monolith lath-turned columns are referred to in several places. 

 When discussing early piers, the two Anglo-Saxon piers, in 

 drums, so unhappiily displaced in 1854 from the east end of 

 the nave, are named as remarkable, only one other instance 

 of like remains being quoted. The original occurrence of 

 pre-Norman transepts in this church is mentioned in the dis- 

 cussion of cruciform plans. Again, in the fine chapter on the 

 origin of window tracery, Repton is the solitary instance cited 

 of a group of six lancets in a single window. 



The fine Norman church of Melbourne also claims, as might 

 be expected, no small amount of attention. Lindisfarne is 

 coupled with Melbourne, in discussion of plans, as having 

 originally central apses, but no lateral apses, as their choirs 

 were without aisles. An illustration is given, showing, from 

 a view of the south side of the choir, how this central apse 

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