EDITORIAL NOTF.S. I_^r 



All. about Derby and Xeighbourhood, third edition. Richard 

 Keene, Ltd., Irongate. Both pretty and useful is this little 

 6d. handbook. First published in 1881, as a welcome to the 

 Royal Agricultural Show, it reached its third edition in time 

 to welcome that Society's second visit to Derby last June. It 

 contains a great deal of most useful information — ancient and 

 modern — is well illustrated, and is quite worth buying. 



Derbyshire Charters, by I. H. Jeayes, of the British Museum. 

 Bemrose & Sons Ltd., price 4_-s. This exceedingly valuable work 

 we owe to Sir Henry Bemrose, whose idea of collecting from 

 all available sources — public and private — the various charters 

 and deeds connected with this county, has rapidly been executed 

 by an expert in such matters. Mr. Jeayes is sincerely to be 

 congratulated on the accuracy and efficiency of his book. It 

 is no mean work to go through several hundred charters and 

 deeds — many of which are almost indecipherable from age, 

 damp, or bad caligraphy — carefully collecting what is material 

 from each. This has been Mr. Jeayes' work— with the result 

 that the whole collection is arranged in chronological and 

 alphabetical order, each charter being entered under the town- 

 ship with which it is mainly concerned. 



Longstone Records, by G. T. Wright. Printed by Benjamin 

 Gratton, Bakewell. As a society interested in the preservation 

 of records, we are much indebted to Mr. Wright^ of Longstone 

 Hall, for the pains he has taken in compiling this interesting 

 history, and as the owner of a library, small though it be, we 

 are exceedingly obliged to him for his kindness in presenting 

 the Society with a copy. In compiling this history, nothing 

 has seemed too modern or too insignificant to be left unrecorded. 

 This is as it should be with a parish history to be read by 

 future generations. If somebody in every parish had for 

 generations made it his business to collect all material con- 

 nected with it, what wonderful county histories we might have 

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