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at the present time. Much, too, has been collected by the 

 author, and included, which has already been published by 

 other writers, such as Dr. Cox and Mr. Pym Yeatman. This 

 is also very useful to the ordinary reader, who is not likely to 

 have easy access to all publications. A portion of the book 

 is devoted to the history of Mr. Wright's family. This is 

 natural, for it is one of the oldest among our Peak families, 

 and is inseparable from the history of the place which gave it 

 birth, and which has been connected with Longstone Village 

 for many generations. Indeed, to use the author's own words 

 in the preface, " Longsdon, i.e., Longstone, was the name of 

 the Wrights as well as of the township long before the family 

 assumed the distinctive name of Wright." We must congratulate 

 Mr. Wright, " who has compiled most of these records in 

 extreme old age, and through a painful illness, away from his 

 home and publishers," on the success of his undertaking. The 

 book has many interesting and beautiful illustrations. 



Mattathias, and other Poems, by Frederic Atkinson, M.A., 

 Canon of Southwell, late Rector of Darley Dale. Longmans, 

 price 4s. 6d. net. This collection of poems bears the deeply-cut 

 impress of a scholar and of a true poet. The contents embrace 

 a wide range of subjects — war, scenery, religion — but though 

 archaeology can hardly be said to be one of them, the fact that 

 some half-dozen poems bear especially on Derbyshire scenes, 

 makes some comment on those poems at least not out of place. 

 Foremost of these stands out conspicuously that on the Darley 

 Yew. This, however, speaks for itself from the Journal's own 

 pages, having been quoted at length in Dr. Cox's article on 

 the Church in volume xxviii. In another poem the legend 

 of the two sycamores on Oker Hill, at Darley, is touched upon, 

 as a supplement to Wordsworth's lines on the same subject. 

 On the next page is a worthy memorial to the hermit who spent 

 his solitary life among the Catcliffe Rocks, near Birchover, 

 where he has left, in his hermitage, a monument for all time 

 in " an old-world carving of the Crucified. ' In a few pretty 



