In the excellent series of "Cambridge County Geographies" (Cams bridge
University Press, is. 6d.) we have Wiltshire, by A. G. Bradley, and Hertfordshire, by R. Lydekker. The physical features—hills, plains, rivers, Ac.--climate, rainfall, minerals, industries, historic re-mains, principal towns and villages, population, with other details, are successively described. Brief notices are given of great per- sonages, and of famous buildings. The diagrams at the end of the volumes are particularly useful. One set, for instance, displays density of population. Lancashire shows 2,347 per square mile and England and Wales 558, while Wilts has 201 and Herta 409. In Wilts, again, there are 123,000 acres under corn crops, in Hertford- shire 116,597, while the permanent pasture shows 259,000 as against 125,267; the total area of the two counties is stated at 864,105 and
404,518. .
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