12 MARCH 1887, Page 25

Watery Wanderings 'mid Western Lochs. By T. H. Holding. (Marlborough

and Co.)—Mr. Holding tells, in the worst possible English, a story that is worth reading. He started from Greenock with three companions, each in a canoe of his own, and enjoyed some weeks of canoeing among the bays and lochs of the Western Coast, getting as far as the foot of Ben Lomond. His experience will be found useful by those who may think of following his example. But the excursion is one that requires no inoonaiderable qualifications in health, thought, and nerve.