Gloucestershire Notes and Queries (Volume 8) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901. Excerpt: ... those bearing the name with which they deal and, we may trust that the author will receive from his namesakes sufficient support to complete his work. The collection of the materials for the book has already cost over 1,000. The complete work will be in ten parts and will comprise about a thousand pages. Nooks and Comers of Shropshire. By H. T. Timmins, F.R.G.S. Demy 4-to, pp. xiv., 243. London, Elliot Stock, 1899. This volume is nicely got up and attractive in appearance save only that it is issued with uncut edges, a practice which for a drawing-room table book is, in these days of cheap paper, an unpardonable offence. Were it not that we are opponents of compulsion we might be tempted to cali in the sanitary authority, and prosecute the wretched publisher who issues books in a form which collects dust and forms a congenial home for the all pervading bacillus. ' Nooks and Corners of Shropshire" is essentially a popular book of the better class. But none the less it is a useful one in that it helps to spread a knowledge of the district amongst those who fear to stray from the beaten track. It will undoubtedly induce many to follow the author's example. Upwards of 150 sketches from the author's pencil show the reader how much beauty and interest the' e is in Shropshire, a county which in ancient times had much business dealing along the waters of Severn with our own. Mr. Timmins accompanies his sketches with a pleasant chatty narrative of his rambles among the dales and "monticles' of the county, adding also an amount of antiquarian notes such as his flying visits have allowed him to acquire. His information is not always to be relied upon, or he would not repeat the exploded derivation of Bridgnorth as coming from the " old bridge," and it is a little dr...