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(1) THE volumes issued by the English Place- Name Society steadily increase in interest as the series lengthens. This is due in no small degree to the added skill which comes from experience in dealing with the material. The Warwickshire volume, it is true, is only the second excursion of the Society into the Midlands; but apart from the adventure of new country, the names on the whole have not the intrinsic attraction which is attached, for example, to the wealth of evidence relating to paganism in the volumes for Surrey and Essex, to name the most recent issues, nor can Warwickshire make a contribution equal in interest to that of the latter of these two counties in the study of early Saxon settlement.
(1) The Place-Names of Warwickshire
By J. E. B. Gover A. Mawer F. M. Stenton in collaboration with F. T. S. Houghton. (English Place-Name Society, Vol. 13.) Pp. li + 409. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1936.) 21s. net.
(2) The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Place-Names
By Eilert Ekwall. Pp. xlviii + 520. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1936.) 15s. net.
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Place-Names and their Study. Nature 139, 445–446 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139445a0
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