Second Edition. Crown 8vo, cloth extra, 6s. CURIOSITIES OF PURITAN NOMENCLATURE. By the Rev. C. W. BARDSLEY, M.A. 'It is enough to mention the fact that 'Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature' is the work of the author of English Surnames' to insure for the book that careful consideration to which it is entitled. Mr. Bardsley, in the one case as in the other, speaks with authority. There has been no student of this field of knowledge so patient and successful as he. If he is not exhaustive, it is simply because life has its limits. Apart from the assistance he has obtained from standard works and from gentlemen in different parts of the country, the personal investigations he made to secure the material embodied and commented upon in this volume represent some twelve years of research. . . . Mr. Bardsley under-estimates the historical value of his work, which is very great."-Leeds Mercury. "Mr. Bardsley has produced a useful and amusing book, superior in almost every respect to his English Surnames,' a book which nevertheless threw a flood of light on a most interesting subject. We welcome most gladly the large collection of facts which Mr. Bardsley's industry has brought together, and are thoroughly at one with him in many of the inferences which he draws... Every future writer on this subject will find Mr. Bardsley's book a great help to him."-Academy. 66 'Although the great changes of intention in naming children, which took place in Puritan times, form Mr. Bardsley's principal theme, he writes in reality an historical sketch of Christian names in England since the Conquest. . . . Mr. Bardsley's researches in parish registers enable him to bring forward a large number of curious and interesting examples of all the different classes of Puritan names, and to trace the waxing and waning popularity of several of them. The facts collected in this entertaining volume must represent a large amount of patient and intelligent research, and it furnishes us with a substantial amount of curious and interesting information, arranged by Mr. Bardsley on a simple and convenient system."-Manchester Examiner. "The work is written in a light, pleasing, gossipy style, and it is so full of interesting and curious details, interspersed with lively anecdotes, that it is pretty sure to find a large circle of appreciative readers.”—Scotsman. "A curious and amusing volume. The chapter on Puritan eccentricities is by far the most valuable part of this book, and will furnish the general reader with a rich fund of out-of-the-way information. Diners-out and amusing talkers' will do well to possess themselves of so useful a volume."—Athenæum. "Mr. Bardsley has faithfully consulted the original mediæval documents and works from which the origin and development of surnames can alone be satisfactorily traced. He has furnished a valuable contribution to the literature of surnames, and we hope to hear more of him in this field."-Times. CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY, W. |