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Florence and Her Treasures. By H. Vaughan. (Methuen and Co.

5s. net.)—This will be found a useful "guide." It deals with the past as well as the present. We can hardly appreciate a city without knowing something of its history and of the great men who have lived in it. Having first acquired a certain know- ledge of these things, we want to be told how we may best acquaint ourselves with what the place has to show, its great buildings, sacred and secular, its artistic treasures, and other kindred things. And then, as one has to live somewhere, there must be informa- tion about hotels, about climate, times, and seasons. All these matters are dealt with in this volume.