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Yorkshiremen of the Restoration. By J. S. Fletcher. (G. Allen

and Unwin. les. 6d. net.)—This book contains a dozen short memoirs of notable Yorkshiremen of the seventeenth century. The third Lord Fairfax, who gave place to Cromwell as Parliamentary commander in 1648 and who helped to restore Charles II., is the most important of the group, with Halifax the " Trimmer." Others are Sir Henry Slingsby, the stout old Cavalier who was executed in 1658; Bishop Lake, the Non-juror, and Archbishop Tillotson; Sir John Reresby, the diarist, and Obadiah Walker, the Master of University College, Oxford, who turned Roman Catholic and helped James IL in his attempt to pervert the University. It is a readable book.