ment, are really excellent.
Take the first of them, the charming view of 'Pleasant Little
Woolwich,' a steel plate engraved in 1798, and now reproduced
by photographic process. The scene which it presents at a time
when the author tells us this brick-covered, hard-working,
dingy old town was a pretty village, and actually a
fashionable watering-place, to which people came from London
to recruit health, as they now go to Malvern and Scarborough,
is delightful and refreshing beyond measure. The whole of
these illustrations are indeed full of agreeable contemplation
and fruitful in speculation.... He may honestly be
congratulated on the product of his labours, which, he tells
us, have been his recreation for many years. We can well
believe it, and assure him, if he has any regrets at the
impossibility of a pecuniary return, that the satisfaction
which his book will give will be a full reward. Such books
seldom pay; they are not expected to do so, and any one may
tell that there is no profit in the venture. But it will
supply a need, and the writer's name will be handed down to
posterity as having provided a very agreeable book."--_The
Woolwich Gazette_.

"The neighbourhood, rich as it is in historical material, has
hitherto met with scanty recognition from historians, and
we welcome Mr. Vincent's efforts to supply the need, and the
generous spirit of his labours. He has spared no pains to make
the records complete. Patient research and much literary skill
are combined in the letterpress and woodcuts, engravings,
drawings, and photographs, with maps and plans, which have
been lavishly introduced by way of illustration.... We
content ourselves now with pointing out its great value and
entertaining power. The style is easy, and the writer is
happily successful in his endeavour to avoid any appearance
of merely dry-as-dust research."--_The Eltham, Sidcup, and
District Times_.

"It is a work which should prove of vast interest in our
district, and we ought to say very far beyond it, for
there must be many who, though not now residing in the area
comprised in the 'Records,' would be glad to possess the book
on its existence becoming known."--_The Erith Times_.

"Mr. W.T. Vincent's 'Records of the Woolwich District' is
undoubtedly the first volume which pretends to g