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lordship of Pembroke. Indeed, the few hints that are allowed about the administrative arrangements of Dyfed in the Middle Ages, are not always worthwhile: Mr. Brian Howells, for instance, is mistaken in suggesting that hundreds existed in later medieval Pembrokeshire, and that the post-Union hundreds approximated to the old 'cantrefi' (p. 36). Again, stricter control might have been exercised over the chronological scope of the essays: on the one hand, Mr. Peter Smith dwells at length on Welsh houses in the Elizabethan period and beyond, whereas Mr. D. J. Cathcart King is hardly allowed to trespass beyond the mid-thirteenth century in his castle-cataloguing. Errors and infelicities find their place: it is misleading to state that 'according to some authorities Morgannwg was already a conquered country' by 1086 (p. 23); it is not really accurate-and hardly charitable- to describe the Norman immigrants into southern Pembrokeshire as 'displaced persons' (p. 9); Roche castle would have appeared less of 'an odd little structure' to Mr. King if he had consulted Mr. L. A. S. Butler's description (in The Carmarthen Antiquary, IV (1962) ); Mr. Howells would have done well to have studied the use made of The Black Book of St. David's by the late Professor T. Jones Pierce (in Ceredigion, III (1959) ) before writing of medieval settlement; and Sir Goronwy Edwards would be as surprised to learn that it was 'nearly half a century ago' that he described the process of Norman penetration in Wales as he would be shocked to discover that for an even greater length of time his Christian name has been James (p. 42). Despite such blemishes, these essays provide a valuable summary of recent labours in the archaeological fields of Dyfed, and particularly stimulating are the pieces by Dr. H. N. Savory and Dr. C. A. Ralegh Radford. The editor closes the book with an interesting account of the Cambrians' predecessors in unearthing the past of the 'Land of Dyfed'. R. A. GRIFFITHS. Swansea. ENGLAND AND WALES: A TRAVELLER'S COMPANION. By Arnold Fellows. Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1964. Pp. xviii + 419. 30s. This book was first published in 1937 under the title of The Wayfarers Companion and was reprinted five times. The present new edition has been revised and amplified. It may, therefore, be assumed that the book has met a felt-want, and that its merits will continue to ensure for it an adequate market. But one may doubt whether its new title is as apt as its original one, or indeed whether any conceivable title would really indicate its diverse subject matter. The fact is that the book is in two parts, the nature, purposes, and value of which are quite different, and the binding together of these two parts in one volume does not make it into a unity. The first 212 pages are devoted to fifteen chapters of descriptive narrative. These are generally pleasant and informative reading,