The Mosquito Country. By W. D. R. (Wyman and Sons.)—This
little book is one which may serve as a very fair guide to other wan- derers in the country districts of which it speaks. It is a slight sketch of a holiday tour in some parts of Norway, Lapland, and Sweden. The author disclaims any intention of either writing a guide-book, or pro- pounding any theories respecting, either the countries through which lie passed or the people with whom he came in contact, but perhaps for that very reason he has found leisure to observe and note down just the very things travellers most want to know. It is true we have no chapter on the remote causes which may have resulted in making the Swede honest by nature, but it is satisfactory to learn that in Sweden the two points most immediately noticeable by the traveller are the honesty of the people and the cheapness of living. Mr. Knight had an illustration of the first point in a boatman who paddled him across to Tornea, to whom he gave a Swedish coin value about sixpence, and passed on, but was immediately called back by the boatman to take fourpence change. Mr. Knight thinks Stockholm the most picturesque • city he has seen next to Constantinople, but we suspect few travellers will be prepared to endorse the preference he gives to the Swedish capital when comparing it with Venice.
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