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County Topographies. Edited by E. R. Kelly. (Kelly.)—The plan of

these useful volumes is to give the information contained in the Post- Office Directories under the head of the various counties. The Direc- tories include several counties in one volume ; here each county is separate, and the bulk is vastly diminished by the list of persons being omitted, while the places only are described. The names of the chief landholders and of the incumbent of the parish are indeed the only per- sonal information given, but the church, the antiquities, and the general features of each parish are described in considerable detail.