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We have to acknowledge four additional volumes of the "Victoria

History of the Counties of England" (A. Constable and Co., 31s. 6d. net per vol.) These are Kent,Vol. I ; Stafford,V 01.1. ; Warwick, Vol. II.; and Dorset, Vol. II. The plan of these volumes is so settled, and the excellence of the work embodied in them so universally acknowledged, that a detailed notice of them as they appear is not an imperative duty The public interested in the undertaking has been found, and we can only say to any, if such there be, who are not acquainted with its scope and its merits that it is well worthy of support. Everything that concerns a county—Its history, political and civil, its physical characteristics, the fauna and flora, the agriculture, d:c.—is treated by an expert.