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book review   History and Antiquities of Carlisle   Samuel Jefferson
	History and Antiquities of Carlisle book review The History and Antiquities of Carlisle: with an account of the Castles, Gentlemen's Seats, and Antiquities in the Vicinity, and Biographical Memoirs of Eminent Men connected with the Locality. 8vo. pp.460. THIS is, on the whole, a work of considerable merit. The publisher, Mr. Samuel Jefferson, of Carlisle, has been more than usually fortunate in the amount and quality of the literary assistance he has received from a variety of able contributors; and has executed his own editorial task with much judgment and good sense. There was not before any History of Carlisle beyond a few summary guide-books; and the only former accounts of it worthy of mention, are those in the Histories of Cumberland, by Nicolson and Burn, by Hutchinson, and by the Lysons's. From its peculiar and very important situation as a border fortress, Carlisle mixes more than most places in the general history of the kingdom; and for this part of the subject the foundation was broadly laid in Ridpath's Border History, and in other works. We feel bound, however, to add that our author appears to have availed himself very industriously of all sources within his reach, and to be generally alive to the additional materials which have been afforded by modern works. His architectural descriptions have been very ably supplied by an anonymous contributor. This was a subject which his predecessors of the last generation were entirely unacquainted; a flood of new light was, however, brought into Cumberland by the brother authors of the Magna Britannia. We may here incidentally mention that Mr. R. W. Billings, a well-known architectural artist, and author of a very complete work on the Temple Church, is now engaged in engraving a series of plates descriptive of Carlisle cathedral, after the manner of Britton's Cathedral Antiquities. It is an edifice shorn of its due proportions, battered alike by time and border warfare, and imperfect from unfinished reconstructions; but it has curious portions, and its east window, in particular, is perhaps the finest existing specimen of the Decorated style, being
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