Four Welsh Counties. By E. A. Kilner. (Sampson Low, Marston,
and Co.)—The "four counties" are Brecknock, Cmrnar- von, Merioneth, and Pembroke. Mr. %liner sketches their history, archaeological remains, scenery, and objects of modern interest. There is much that is readable in this volume, but a "holiday book " might have been put into a more convenient shape, and furnished with more useful appliances.—Together with this may be mentioned The Tourist's Guide to Hertfordshire, by A. J. Foster, M.A. (E. Stanford). The book is conveniently arranged, with references to the four railways (London and North-Western, Midland, Great Northern, and Great Eastern) that run through it. Mr. Foster might have added the districts which are now legally parts of the county, Hadley and South Mimms, the former a place of remarkable interest.—Another volume of local interest is Olde Lecke, edited by Matthew Henry Miller (The Times Office, Leek). The old Poor-Law entries, among other things, are very curious. There is a very vigorous description of the Young Pre- tender's army, of which the editor remarks, not without truth, that it is "more circumstantial and local than any letter that has hitherto been discovered." The writer had a very mean opinion of them. "To give you a full account of all outrgges [outrages], robberies, and murders they comitted, would fill a large voloom." They burnt the corn to make fires, and, greatest crime of all, "great swarmes of them had no breeches."—Buckinghamshire Sketches, by E. S. Roscoe (Cassell and Co.), describes various in- teresting localities in Buckinghamshire,—Bulstrode, for instance, Chenies, Hampden's home, and Olney.
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