Abstract
THESE additions to the series of County Geographies deal with four areas almost as widely unlike as could be found among British counties. East London, a somewhat artificial division of the accidentally - delimited County of London, affords little scope for real geographic treatment, and even that little has not been fully taken advantage of by Mr. Bosworth. Why the Thames has always been so important in trade, and why the nucleus of London was situated just where it is, are two questions not so fully answered as they might have been, and it is disappointing to be told in a geographical work that “it was mainly owing to them [the craft-guilds] that London became the first industrial and commercial city in the kingdom.” As a topographical and historical description of the City and the county east thereof, the work is well done, and can be recommended to all interested in its area. We have not noticed any of the common errors of works on London, but the statement that London stone “was very greatly esteemed” in the Middle Ages is rather cryptic, and portions of the first paragraph in chapter 11 ought to have been placed within quotation-marks.
East London.
G. F. Bosworth. Pp. x + 256. The Isle of Man. By the Rev. J. Quine. Pp. x + 178. Carnarvonshire. By Prof. J. E. Lloyd. Pp. xi + 171. Monmouthshire. By H. A. Evans. Pp. x + 183. (Cambridge County Geographies.) (Cambridge: University Press, 1911.)
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East London . Nature 89, 346 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089346b0
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