The Victoria County History Everyone who is . seriously •
interested in the general or local history. of our country knows the worth of the Victoria History of the Counties of England, whose great quartos have appeared at intervals for the last thirty-five years under the masterly editorship of Mr. William Page. It is welcome news that Mr. Page has assured the continuation and completion of the great enterprise—now about half finished--by giving the copyright and materials to the University of London. Oxford, in somewhat similar eireumstances, took over Dr. Murray's English •DietiOnary and the- Dictionary of National -Biography -whieh the late Mr. Gebrge Siiiith, of Messrs. Smith; Elder and Co., -financed from start to finish of the Main Work. London- University,- through its Institute of Historical Research, is well qualified to see that this even greater undertaking of the Victoiia History is' completed an the scholarly lines laid down by Mr. Page.
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