Cassell': Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. I., A-
Ched. (Cassell and Co.)—This promises to be a very complete and useful work, "a complete topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom." Of course it admits of improvement. There are, for instance, two churches at Bexhill. Generally, as far as we have been able to test, we have found the information accurate and not without interest.—Chambers's Concise Gaxetteer of the World (W. and It Chambers) has, it will be seen, a larger aim. Necessarily it has to omit many places, and so will occa- sionally disappoint the person who consults it ; but its 765 pages will be found to contain a vast amount of information, well brought up to date, for the most part. But is it not the fact that "Richard of Cirencester" was not a native of that town, or, indeed, of any place, but the creation of a forger ?
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