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Philips' Pictorial Pocket Atlas and Gazetteer (G. Philip and Son,

is. net) is in every way, for its contents, its execution, and its price, something of a wonder. Multitudes of facts, physical, political, and social, are crowded into it. We see the National Revenues, Expenditures, and Debts of the world represented pictorially (Russia stands first for revenue, but the figure doubt- less includes much that comes here under the head of local taxa- tion). Then the stock of animals is given by the shapes, huge or diminutive, of animals, and the shipping by vessels of various dimensions. The British barque far exceeds all the others. A most useful little volume this.