18 NOVEMBER 1899, Page 12

We give a warm welcome to the first volume of

the Home Counties Magazine, edited by W. J. 'Hardy, F.S.A. (F. E. Robinson and Co., 10s. net). It is to be "devoted to • the topography of London, Middlesex, Essex, Herts, Bucks, Berke, Surrey, and Kent." The subject thus defined is practically with- out limits. London alone would furnish matter for not a few volumes ; a magazine can do what no single writer, ho wever well informed and industrious, can effect. It attracts a whole circle of readers, whose aggregate knowledge, often of local matters which commonly escape attention, far exceeds that of any individual.