6 DECEMBER 1913, Page 44

Thomas Hardy's Wessex. By Hermann Lea. (14facmillan and Co. 7s.

Bd. net.)—Readers of Mr. Hardy's novels whose interest in them is of a geographical and topographical sort will find much to please them in this book-. The identities of the places mentioned in the novels are satisfactorily established, and some two hundred and fifty photographs of no very great merit help to complete what we cannot but regard as a rather pedantic task.