_Englishman._--"The writer handles his subject with consummate skill, and his reward will lie in the unmeasured praise of his many readers." _Guardian._--"A book which brings fresh enthusiasm, and will impart a new impetus to the study of the Abbey and its history." _Scotsman._--"At once instructive and delightful, it more than justifies its existence by its historical and architectural learning." _Liverpool Daily Courier._--"We found the earlier parts of the book most fascinating, and have read them over and over again." _Architectural Association Journal._--"Bright and interesting; evincing the author's invariable enthusiasm and characteristic industry." _Western Morning News._--"To say that the book is interesting is to say little; it is a monument of patient and loving industry and extreme thoroughness, an inexhaustible mine of delight to the reader, general or technical." _Outlook._--"The author discusses the architecture with a minuteness that might terrify the inexpert if it were not for the sustained ease and interest of his style; great is the fascination of the expert hand when its touch is light." _Saturday Review._--"Mr Bond leaves us more than ever proud of what is left to us of the stately Benedictine house of God, which is to the entire English-speaking world a common bond and home." _Antiquary._--"It has a wealth of capital illustrations, is preceded by a bibliography, and is supplied with good indexes to both illustrations and text." _Journal des Savants._--"Certains clichés, comme ceux des voûtes, des tombeaux et de quelques détails de sculpture sont de véritables tours de force. Le choix des illustrations est très heureux, comme d'ailleurs dans les autres ouvrages de M. Bond." * * * * * BY THE SAME AUTHOR WOOD CARVINGS IN ENGLISH CHURCHES I. MISERICORDS A HANDSOME VOLUME, CONTAINING 257 PAGES, WITH 241 ILLUSTRATIONS. OCTAVO, STRONGLY BOUND IN CLOTH. PRICE 7S. 6D. NET. LONDON: HENRY FROWDE, Oxford University Press ---------- SOME PRESS NOTICES _Morning Post._--"The subject is one of the first importance to mediæval popular history, and we welcome this very admirable and thorough monograph with special gratitude." _Athenæum._--"Mr Bond has put his rare industry in all that pertains to ecclesiology to excellent service in his latest book on Misericords." _Antiquary._--"An authoritative and, at the same time, delightful and instructive volume. Really the first attempt to deal comprehensively with the great variety of carvings on misericords." _New York Herald._--"One of the quaintest, most fascinating, and at the same time most learned volumes that a reader would happen upon in a lifetime." _Church Times._--"An indispensable guide to the subject. The illustrations are worthy of all praise."