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Gower as opposed to the lordship, archdeaconry and parliamentary division of Gower. The author discusses each parish in turn, commencing at Swansea, proceeding coastwise and ending inland. A chapter is devoted to each parish, and there are two further chapters on old Gower customs and Gower speech. Tucker's knowledge of seafaring and things maritime was excellent. As became the son of a sailor, he absorbed the feeling, interest and knowledge of his forbears. His work on wrecks, smuggling and forgotten harbours was particularly original and good. Smuggling at Penard is most vividly described. He also enjoyed conversations with the older folk, and he has recorded information concerning dialect, folk-lore, old industries and parish revelries, which would otherwise have been lost. With the contemporary ironing-out of local differences which is going on all over the world, these references to Gower in 1900 will become more and more valuable as we approach 2000 A.D. The book is written in a conversational style, at times very vivid, but also on occasions somewhat loose. The author's archaeological knowledge was weak and he is guilty of errors and omissions. His comments on hill-forts, promontory-forts and megalithic monuments are not always sound. When discussing the inscribed stones of Llanrhidian, Llangenydd and Reynoldston, he would greatly have profited by consulting Dr. Nash- Williams's authoritative Early Christian Monuments of Wales. There is, for example, no Ogham on the Reynoldston stone. There are many historical notes, but this side of the book is far from complete. The origin of Saint Cenydd as given in The Lives of British Saints by Baring-Gould and Fisher is so essentially a Gower story that it might have been included. The account of the Bowen family is brief in the extreme, though an authentic account of them is available in Elizabeth Bowen's Bowen's Court and in Colonel Cottingham's Pedigree of Bowen of Court House. The castle of Landimore is very scantily mentioned and its importance and interest not discussed. The followers of the great Baptist pioneer, John Myles, who founded the Baptist church at Ilston, were not confined to English Gower. The Gower dialect word, "lanchers" must mean "land shares" in the discussion of land tenure at Rhosili. The book also lacks an index and bibliography, and has few references, though in fairness, of course, it must be remembered that its author did not live to prepare it finally for publication. This is not the definitive book on Gower. Much more original work needs to be done, archaeologically and historically, on the area before any significant advance can be made. Archaeologically there is much to be done. Apart from the current digging at Minchin Hole, no important excavations have taken place since Audrey Williams's work on High Penard and Fairwood Common (Arch. Camb., 1940,1941 and 1944); but the proposed visit of the Cambrian Archaeological Association to the ancient lordship of Gower in 1960 may stimulate further interest. In the meantime, the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments will soon begin its Survey and Inventory of Glamorgan, commencing with pre-history, and from this the study of Gower is sure to benefit very greatly. On the