"Mr. Sidney Clarke's concise monograph in 'The Miracle Play in England' is another of the long and interesting series of antiquarian volumes for popular reading issued by the same publishing house. The author briefly sketches the rise and growth of the 'Miracle' or 'Mystery' play in Europe and in England; and gives an account of the series or cycle of these curious religious dramas--the forerunners of the modern secular play--performed at York, Wakefield, Chester, Coventry, and other towns in the middle ages. But his chief efforts are devoted to giving a sketch of the manner of production, and the scenery, properties, and dresses of the old miracle play, as drawn from the minute account books of the craft and trade guilds and other authentic records of the period. Mr. Clarke has gone to the best sources for his information, and the volume, illustrated by quaint cuts, is an excellent compendium of information on a curious byeway of literature and art."--_The Scotsman._ A Book About Bells. BY THE REV. GEO. S. TYACK, B.A., Author of the "Historic Dress of the Clergy," etc. _Crown, cloth extra, 6s._ CONTENTS:--Invention of Bells--Bell Founding and Bell Founders--Dates and Names of Bells--The Decoration of Bells--Some Noteworthy Bells--The Loss of Old Bells--Towers and Campaniles--Bell-Ringing and Bell-Ringers--The Church-Going Bell--Bells at Christian Festivals and Fasts--The Epochs of Man's Life Marked by the Bells--The Blessings and the Cursings of the Bells--Bells as Time-Markers--Secular Uses of Church and other Bells--Small Bells, Secular and Sacred--Carillons--Belfry Rhymes and Legends--Index of Subjects, Index of Places. THIRTEEN FULL-PAGE PLATES. "A most useful and interesting book.... All who are interested in bells will, we feel confident, read it with pleasure and profit."--_Church Family Newspaper._ "A pleasing, graceful, and scholarly book.... A handsome volume which will be prized by the antiquary, and can be perused with delight and advantage by the general reader."--_Notes and Queries._ "'A Book About Bells' can be heartily commended."--_Pall Mall Gazette._ "An excellent and entertaining book, which we commend to the attention not only of those who are specially interested in the subject of bells, but to all lovers of quaint archaeological lore."--_Glasgow Herald._ "The book is well printed and artistic in form."--_Manchester Courier._ "'A Book About Bells' is destined to be the work of reference on the subject, and it ought to find a home on the shelves of every library."--_Northern Gazette._ "The task Mr. Tyack has set himself, he has carried out admirably, and throughout care and patient research are apparent."--_Lynn News._ "We heartily recommend our readers to procure this volume."--_The Churchwoman._ "An entertaining work."--_Yorkshire Post._