macli  the  writer  feels  that  it  will  not  be  considered  an-
becoming  in  him  to  say.  The  book  appropriately  closes
with  sketches  of  the  lives  of  eminent  characters  of
Wycombe,  worthies  who  have  left  their  mark  and  passed
away.  The  signs  of  the  vitality  of  the  old  town,  the
increase  of  its  staple  manufacture,  the  extension  of  the
borough  itself,  aU  point  to  a  future  histpry,  which  may
perhaps  surpass  in  interest  its  former  annals,  but  the
records  of  the  past  will  be  no  unimportant  guide  to  a
coming  generation.
THE  HISTORY  OF  HUGHBNDEN.
BY  MB.  B.  S.  DOWNS.
Hughenden  is  an  extensive  parish  situated  to  the
north  of  High  Wycombe,  the  Church  being  distant  about
two  miles  on  the  road  between  that  town  and  Aylesbury.
The  parish  is  about  five  miles  long  and  three-and-a-haif
miles  wide.  Its  Saxon  name,  which  has  been  variously
written  Huchenden,  Hochenden,  Hychendene,  Hutching-
don,  Hitchenden,  and  which  is  now  permanently  fixed  as
Hughenden,  very  aptly  describes  its  physical  aspect,  that
is,  an  elevated  plain  pierced  by  valleys.
