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of "Coimtry Life," the most delightful of all weekly papers. "If 

 so they will be able to form some idea of the beauty of the present 

 volume, as it is designed very much on similar lines — " but much more 

 so." About seventy of the most beautiful country houses of England, 

 famed for their gardens, have been selected. Each is fully described in 

 the pleasantest possible letterpress and illustrated with the most lavish 

 illustration it has ever been our lot to meet with. Many of the illustra- 

 tions are full folio size, and their value and suggestiveness to those who are 

 planning or altering gardens is enormously enhanced by the fact that every 

 one of them is the reproduction of an actual photograph, thus teaching^ 

 us not what an artist may dream of; but what a mere mortal may 

 produce and has produced in his garden. The book consists of 320 pages » 

 and on a rough calculation it contains more than 350 of these magnificent 

 photographic reproductions. It is a book which no country house calling 

 itself a " Country House " should be without. 



