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Near Oxford. By the Rev. H. T. Inman. (Alden and

Co. is. rid 2s. 6d. net.)—This is a companion volume to the publishers' "Oxford Guide," and gives particulars of some hundred places of interest within a radius of fifteen miles from the city itself. We do not profess to have examined the whole ; but while we have found some of the items. satisfactory, others admit of improve- ment,—Abingdon, for instance, where the highly interesting alms- houses might have been more fully described ; and Dorchester, where the curious ground-plan of the town, coinciding with the castra from which it gets its name, is not adequately noticed.