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literature or in the Church with whom ho has become acquainted in the 

 course of his life. He does not tell us much about any of these — a sketch 

 of character admirably given — a criticism of a poem or a book — a remark 

 made in conversation at a dinner party — and he passes on to the next, 

 leaving the reader often longing to hear more. His heroes are literary men, 

 and their talk is for the most part of literature — but occasionally a good 

 story is allowed to slip in. as in the case of a singularly excellent anecdote 

 of Kogers and Wordsworth, for which the Dean, however, immediately 

 afterwards as it were apologises by saying that he has an "immense store' 1 

 of such sayings of Rogers' — which, however, he refrains from giving us. 

 The book is charmingly written— the Dean has never a hard word to say 

 of anybody— and the oily bad thing about it is the colour of the cover he 

 has chosen to clothe it in. 



It has been favourably reviewed in The Times, February 21st ; Standard, 

 February 13th ; Salisbury Diocesan Gazette, March ; Daily TelegrapJi, 

 February 15th, 1895. 



Memorials of the Dan vers Family (of Dauntsey and Culworth), 

 their ancestors and descendants from the Conquest till the termi- 

 nation of the Eighteenth Century, with some account of the 

 alliances of the family and of the places where they were seated : 

 hy F. N. Macnamara, M.D., Surgeon- Major (retired), Indian Army. 

 London: Hardy & Page, 21, Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn. 1895. 8vo. 

 Cloth, pps. xxvi. and 562. Price to subscribers, £1 Is. 



This book is a mine of genealogical information. The British Museum, 

 the Record Office, the muniments of several of the colleges at Oxford, the 

 Register of Thame Abbey, at Longleat — not to speak of endless other sources 

 of information, original and printed, have evidently been diligently searched. 

 The amount of labour that this involved must have been immense, and the 

 result is a storehouse of information on everything and everybody connected 

 in any way with the family of Dan vers. The places where they held 

 property and the Churches in which they were buried are all described. 

 The pedigree of their wives is traced whenever possible. Even the probable 

 circumstances of their lives are dwelt upon, and the events of general history 

 with which they happened, even in the remotest way, to be connected are set 

 forth at length. The line traced is that of the Buckinghamshire and Oxford- 

 shire Danvers. and the family is derived from Auvers in the Cotentin— though 

 the evidence in favour of this particular Auvers out of many places of the 

 name in France seems iuconclnsive. D'Alvers appears to have been the 

 earliest form of the name, for a Roland d'Alvers fought at Hastings. Robert 

 de Alvers occurs in Domesday, and Will. Danvers, of Tetsworth, is decided to 

 the author's satisfaction to be the great-great-grandson of the Conqueror's 

 knight. Some of the earlier links in the chain naturally rest rather upon 

 conjecture — often very ingenious conjecture — than upon evidence capable of 

 actual proof ; and although the information added so lavishly is in some cases 

 of much interest — as, for instance, the churchwardens' accounts of Culworth— 

 yet much of it — such as the description of life at Winchester College — has but 



