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Country Life. Vol. IV. (Hudson and Kearns. 21s.)—We have read

this bound volume of Country Life with great pleasure. The pictures are quite excellent, especially in the series devoted to the gardens of the great country houses. We get here very effective prongs reproductions of photographs taken on the spot by thoroughly competent photographers,—men, that is, who understand how to select points of view that will bring out the chief features of a garden, and who also have enough artistic sense to make something of a picture. Some thirty or forty years hence a bound set of Country Life will be one of the most delight- ful possessions possible, almost as good as the complete sets of Punch or the Illustrated London News, those incomparable store- houses of light reading.