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The Origin of English Place‐Names. By P. H. Reaney. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1960, x + 277 pp. 32s.English Plage‐Names. By Kenneth Cameron. London: Batsford. 1961. 256 pp. 30s.Frederick William Maitland And The History of English Law (University of Oklahoma Press. 1961. xvi + 214 pp. 32s.)A History of Lay Judges. By John P. Dawson. Harvard University Press: O.U.P. 1960, vi + 310 pp. 52s.English Religious Dissent (Cambridge University Press, 1960, viii + 214 pp. 18s.)The Parish of St. James Westminster, Part One: South of Piccadilly. With their separate folder of plans (The Athlone Press for the London County Council, 1960. 2 vols, xiii + xix + 646 pp., 277 pp. plates. £8 8s.)L'histoire et Ses Méthodes (Paris: Gallimard. 1961. 1771 pp.).English Ancestry (Oxford University Press. 1961. 176 pp. 6s.)The City In History (London: Seeker and Warburg. 1961. 657 pp. 70s.)Les Jésuites by Alain Guillermou (Paris: Presses Universitaires. 1961. 126 pp.)A. R. Stedman's Marlborough and The Upper Kennet Country (Marlborough. 1960. 398 pp.)Portrait of a College (Cambridge University Press. 1961. xi + 149 pp. 18s. 6d.).The Second Period of Quakerism (Cambridge University Press. 1961. xxxvi + 735 pp. 30s.)A History of Architecture on The Comparative Method, by Banister Fletcher, first published in 1896, has long been a standard work. The seventeenth edition has been extensively revised by R. A. Cordingley and is now published by the Athlone Press for the University of London (1961. xxiv + 1366 pp. illus. 84s.).The Town (London: Vista Books. 1961. 214 pp. 25s.)Interpretations of History: Confucius to Toynbee (London: Allen and Unwin. 1961. 260 pp. 28s.)