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Georges Cain, as curator of the Carnavalet Museum, had great

qualifications as a guide to Paris, and in Nooks and Corners of Old Paris (Richards Press, 21s.) he described for us twenty years ago some of the byways and foul dens on which the beasts of the Apocalypse grin down from the towers of Notre Dame. Victorien Sardou's preface, recalling memor- ies of days that now seem strangely remote, is well worth reading also, and the book has not dated," so that this new edition is to be welcomed.