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BOOKS ON NORTHERN TOPOGRAPHY. 
Walks around Bradford, illustrated, 5th edition. Bradford: W. 
Byles and Sons, 70 pp., 6d. net. This contains a series of articles dealing 
with places in the Bradford district, reprinted from The Yorkshire Observer. 
There is a one page index, on the front of which appears an advertisement 
for a cafe, so that even the index is lost when we tear the advertisement 
out. 
Odd Corners in English Lakeland. Rambles, Scrambles, Climbs and 
Sport, by William T. Palmer. London: Skeffington and Son, 186 pp., 
2s. 6d. net. This may be described as a better class guide book, rather 
better bound and printed that the average guide book, and on thicker 
paper. There are also fifteen good illustrations, one of which we are 
permitted to reproduce (plate XIX.). Besides dealing with methods of 
‘ getting about,’ reference is made to hills not often climbed, dangerous 
Lakeland, Wild Life on the Uplands (ravens, peregrines, ferns, etc., though 
very briefly touched upon), the Martindale deer, angling, winter sports, 
native sports, etc. Mr. Palmer says ‘ one cannot deal with the buntings, 
fieldfares, and other birds which come from the Arctic ‘fjelds’ to our own 
fells for the winter, but one may add that it is not unusual to see gulls, 
chiefly of the black-headed variety, high up our mountains. Indeed 
this species, with the black-headed variety, has been known to nest erratic- 
ally.’ 
Lancashire. A descriptive account of the County Palatine. By 
Ernest Evans. London: Longmans, Green and Co., xil.+.167 pp., 
1s. 6d. net. Though this little volume, by a natural science master, and 
presumably for the use of scholars, is intended to cover the various ‘ ologies ’ 
demanded by modern books on geography, it is rather too much biassed in 
favour of geology. Still there is no doubt its perusal will result in a better 
understanding of the structure and present appearance of the interesting 
county between Cheshire and the Lakes. The author is perhaps the least 
at home when speaking of primitive man. It is hardly likely that the flint 
for making his implements would be obtained from chalk ‘ while on 
hunting expeditions in Yorkshire’ as the Yorkshire chalk flints were not 
suitable for the purpose. ‘The illustrations of the Bronze-age weapons. 
on page 125 are absurd, and evidently the author has not quite grasped 
what is meant by the Early Iron-age. There are several maps, though it is 
difficult to understand why, in addition to the figure number and the 
description, there should be in each case ‘ George Philip and Son, Ltd.,” 
and ‘Longmans, Green and Co., London, New York, Bombay and 
Calcutta.’ 
Memorials of Old Nottinghamshire. Edited by Everard L. Guilford.. 
London: George Allen and Co., pp. xiv. + 354. 15s. net. This is a 
welcome addition to the Memorials of the Counties of England Series, 
some of the volumes of which we have previously had the pleasure of 
referring to. The present work is well up to the excellent standard already 
attained. Among the contributors are the leading authorities in their 
respective studies, the names of Hamilton Thompson, Rev. J. Charles. 
Cox, J. A. Gotch, Bernard Smith, Aymer Vallance, John Russell, the 
editor, and others being a guarantee of accuracy. The volume does not 
profess completeness; as the editor rightly points out several books 
might be written on the many-sidedness of this interesting shire. But 
it forms a valuable collection of essays. Among the subjects dealt with 
are Mediaeval Church Architecture, Newstead Priory and Religious 
Houses, Ancient and Modern Trent, The Forest of Sherwood, Roods, 
Screens and Lofts, the Civil War, Poets, Spires, Low-side Windows, and 
Clockmakers. There is also a particularly good account of the Notting- 
ham and Newark Mints, with plates shewing Saxon pieces, Newark Siege 
pieces, seventeenth century tokens, etc. The illustrations are particularly 
numerous and good, and there is an unusually good index. 
Naturalist, 
