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diary form by the observations made on the face of the country, 
manners, customs, amusements, towns, roads, and seats, in the 
itinerary, which Miss Edwards has republished. 
With a Quarterly Journal which will ere long, like a vampire, be 
sucking the brain of every available writer, the reprinting by the 
Royal Agricultural Society of England of the twenty-two chapters 
dealing with the leading and predominant object Young had in view 
is worthy of consideration. Should it be undertaken, the maps 
ought to be reproduced. A sight of them will at once suggest the 
advantage to the agricultural interest of preparing a selection on the 
same design for Great Britain. Arthur Young himself seems to 
have been aware of the usefulness of similar maps in his own 
country, as he issued some in the Agricultural Surveys published 
by the Board of Agriculture. We have abundance of splendid 
geological maps of Great Britain, but of surface maps next to none, 
if we except the "drift" maps of the Ordnance Survey of the 
eastern portion of England ; and it is, after all, with the surface that 
the farmer has to do. A geological El Dorado of fertility may be 
below him at the depth of four feet, but if the space between that 
and the sole of his plough or the hoof of his live-stock be taken up 
by a layer of boulder clay, it might as well be on the other side of 
the world, for all the good it will do him. 
If, therefore, what Miss Betham-Edwards has so admirably 
carried out in the republication and annotation of a portion of these 
Travels should lead to the complete reproduction of the work, with 
similar skill and care bestowed upon it, she will, indirectly, have 
rendered a great service to the readers of books worth reading, but 
which are not easily obtainable. 
Albert Pell. 
THE AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS ACT. 
Note upon a Case relating to the Agricultural Holdings [England) 
Act, 1883, recently decided by the Queen's Bench Division of the 
High Court of Justice. 1 
It is proposed that the New Series of the Journal shall cont.dn 
abstracts of legal decisions affecting agriculture, and notes on legal 
points which may be useful to the members of the Society. For- 
tunately for them, these notes and abstracts are not likely to be 
many or long, for the legal relations of the agricultural classes 
towards each other, and towards outsiders, are for the most part 
well settled ; and if disputes arise, they are far more likely to be 
disputes of fact than of law. . Occasionally, however, a dispute in- 
1 lie Paul — ex pnrte Portarlington {Karl of), reported in vol. lix. of the 
Law Journal Reports (Q.B.D.), p. 30; and in the Law llejiorts, vol. xsiv 
(Q.B.D.), p. 247. 
