Reviews

.. Cll RECEN'r BOOKS. . REVIEW. Old Oanterbu1·y. By WALTER COZENS, Published by Cross and Jackman, Canterbury. 1906. This little book of some 120 pages is an interesting record of changes in Canterbury in recent years, and of the various odds and ends discovered by Mr. Cozens in carrying on his building work since the year 1875. It is just such a record as is needed to prevent the matters dealt with passing into oblivion, and if every place had some one of like mind with the Author the history of sites would be made considerably easier as time goes on. Mr. Cozens has grouped his information in seven chapters : (I.) Prehistoric, (II.) The Main Street, (HI.) Old Dover Road, (IV.) Round about the City, (V.) Sidelights, (VI.) Changes in a Lifetime. The Seventh Chapter deals with ancient plans of Canterbury. REVIEW. ciii The book is illustrated with several reproductions of photographs of old houses, aud the frontispiece is a. drawing of the fourteenthcentury house formerly in Upper Bridge Street, which Mr. Cozens was instrumental in having re-erected near the Westgate in 1906, and utilized as a small museum for objects found by him, many of which are alluded to in the pages under review. A full account of this interesting house is given on pages 85-91. Without endorsing all the Author's views, when he leaves the record of his own researches, we congratulate him on a useful piece of work. We notice a few errors, which will doubtless be corrected in a future edition, e.g., St. Pancras' Chapel was not within the Cathedral precincts (p. 112). It would also be convenient where quotations are made from other works if references were given to the originals in each case. L.L.D.