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Our Own Country : Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial. (Cassell and Co.)—Messrs.

Cassell have won a very considerable reputation by

their illustrated books descriptive of the scenery of this country, of

Europe, and, indeed, of the world generally. The volume before us would scarcely claim to be in the first class of these books, but it is

sufficiently interesting and well executed. It is not easy to keep ready for use the remembrance of all the books of this kind that Messrs. Cassell have published, but we have an impression that some of the materials here employed have been taken from "Picturesque Europe."