A Child's History of Westminster Abbey. By Agatha G. Twining.
(Mowbray and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mrs. Twining, not finding a book about the Abbey that was sufficiently easy for her children to understand, wrote this volume to serve the purpose. And it should servo it well enough. The principal objects in the building, as "The Tomb of Richard II." and " The Chapel of Henry VII.," are illustrated, with a page in which the chief events concerning the personage or family commemorated are briefly stated. From time to time there are fuller descriptions, narra- tives, &c. Surely it is a pity that Mrs. Twining should talk of " modern critics " seeming " to dislike excitement." Some one— Mr. Loftie, we think—pointed out that the helmet, shield, and sword were furnished by the undertakers. " It is much more exciting," says Mrs. Twining, "to gaze at these old objects and imagine them to have been worn by the King at Agincourt" !
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