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A Guide to Tideswell, by the Rev. J. M. J. Fletcher, M.A. 

 It is pleasing to note that this useful and well written little book 

 has now reached a well-deserved third edition. Lord Hawkes- 

 bury has contributed the preface in the form of a paper upon 

 " The Foljambs in Tideswell," and both he and the author have 

 added new facts to our knowledge of the history of this old 

 town and its people. 



English Monasteries, from Saxon Days to their Dissolution, 

 is a small volume on entirely original lines, and based through- 

 out on authentic records. Though published anonymously, it 

 is an open secret that the writer is the Rev. Dr. Cox. It is 

 stated, inter alia, that — " Over the great wild stretch of Peak 

 Forest, Derbyshire, or certain parts of it, the abbeys of Basing- 

 wark, Beauchief, Darley, Domhall, Dieulacres, Leicester, Lillen- 

 hall, Merivale, Roche, and Welbeck, together with the priories 

 of Kingsmead, Launde, and Lenton, all had rights." 



HigJrways and Byways in Derbyshire, by J. B. Firth, is an 

 octavo bound volume which has been well reviewed, and rightly 

 so. Although, perhaps, not so reliable in historical matters as, 

 for example, Dr. Cox's Little Guide to Derbyshire, it is a 

 thoroughly readable and descriptive book. Its illustrations have 

 been somewhat adversely criticised, but some of them, especially 

 that of Arbor Low, are distinctly clever. 



Critical Studies and Fragments, by the late S. Arthur Strong, 

 librarian of the House of Lords and at Chatsworth. The 

 preface to Mr. Strong's work, " The Masterpieces of the Duke 

 of Devonshire's Collection of Pictures," was well worth repro- 

 duction, as the book in which it appeared (in 1901) was a 

 costly one with sixty photogravures. The article on the Tapestry 

 from Hardwick Hall appeared in the Architectural Review of 

 March, 1902. This relates to the interesting discovery made 

 by Mr. Strong that there were strips of early tapestry attached 

 to the wall behind the pictures in the Long Gallery. They were 

 taken down, and have been cunningly pieced together, showing 

 that they originally formed four panels. The two best of these 



