Place Names in Kent. By Canon J. W. Horsley. (Maid-
stone : South-Eastern Gazette. 3s. 6d. net.)—The late Canon Horsley wrote this little book; he tells us, because he found that there was no work dealing with Kentish place-names. It was evidently compiled in haste and lacked a final revision, as there are many repetitions. The treatment is unsystematic and there is no index. Yet the book will serve its purpose if it stimulates some expert philologists with a special knowledge of Kent to study the place-names seriously, on the lines of Professor Wyld's work on Lancashire and Professor Mawer's recent work on Northumberland and Durham. There is a rich field of research to be worked in Kent, as in most other counties. Canon Horsley saw the possibilities of the subject, and his essay contains some interesting pages, such as, for instance, the chapter on the Cold Harbours in Kent.
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