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Readers whose thoughts may be turning to a winter or

spring in Italy, may like to have mentioned to them The English Handbook of Rome and its Environs. With Plans. (Sampson Low and Co., London ; Fratelli Treves, Milan.)—It has an admirably clear map of the city, and the usual information, historical, topographical, antiquarian, and artistic, besides some preliminary notices essential to the travellers' and visitors' comfort, about hotels, pensions, public offices, &c. Living in Rome seems to be by no means cheap. We do not observe the name of any English physician or surgeon in the list.