The Fenland, Past and Present

Abstract

THIS book is practically the joint production of several, many chapters being contributed by writers whose names do not appear on the title-page, though given at the head of their respective chapters. The work contains about 650 octavo pages and is therefore cumbrous; it is divided into fifteen chapters, very unequal both in length and merit, which embrace a wide range of subject, including, among others, dissertations on History, Geology, Botany, Zoology, Archaeology, Biography, Engineering and Sanitary Problems, &c. The printing done at Wisbeach has not been carefully revised, as shown by a long list of corrections, which however call attention to but a very small proportion of the errors. Many of the illustrations are presented by patrons, and these are fairly good, except the chromo-lithographed frontispiece which is very inferior either in workmanship or drawing.

The Fenland, Past and Present.

By S. H. Miller S. B. H. Skertchly. (Wisbeach: Leach and Son. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1878.)