Mr. Edward Raton, selfish= written many books of travel in
Europe, has new published, an account of Naples and. Southern Italy (Methuen and (Jo,, 6s. net): He writes in detail of some forty towns and village's scattered over the whole of Maly south of the line Napless Benevento- Massfaredonias, and, more fully and- with great-love, of Pompeii and of Naples. herself, "a city without a monument, a sprawling mass of houses, churches,, palaces, streets all' built of grey lava, scarce. one of -which has any distinction ox beauty." Mr., Hatton succeeds in making• his book, in spite of its inevitable crowding: of, information, interesting even to those who have never been to Naples and have no immediate prospect of gaing,;, it is illustrated with a number of photograph*, and truth some water-Dolours, by Mr. Frank Crisp (wha died in action in January last) of unusual delicacy and, beauty of colouring.,
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