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 modern English scenery which are being specially made for the His- tory. There is an abundance of good maps, from the geological and botanical maps and the maps which illustrate Domesday Book, to Speed's wonderful maps published in 1610 and the maps of the modern surveyors. In an additional volume are added to each county history elaborately drawn pedigrees with many portraits of those county families, titled and untitled, who have held a seat and landed estate in their male line since 1760, the first year of the reign of George III., the reign which saw the beginning of the modern period of change. At a price and under conditions of purchase which allow the history of his own county to find a place on the bookshelf of every Englishman who buys books, and to set the whole work within reach of the least endowed of provincial public libraries, the Victoria History cannot fail, owing to its wide interests and deep educational value, to take its place amongst the greatest of the familiar and trusted books ot reference. Such a work as the Victoria History may be amplified in detail ; indeed it is hoped that the great work will be the fruitful mother of much local archaeological study. But the vastness of its conception and the accuracy of its detail will make it stand whilst black ink and sound rag-paper endure, a national record and a landmark in our history. Full detailed prospectuses of each county as issued may he had on applica- tion to booksellers or to the Publisher Sy Messrs. Archibald Constable & Co, Ltd,^ 2 Whitehall Gardens^ Westminster, Specimen volumes will be sent on approval to be viewed at any bookseller s in town or country.