15 AUGUST 1874, Page 22

Searches for Summer, showing the Anti--Winter Tactics of an Invalid:

By C. Home Douglas. (Blackwood and Sons.)—This is a useful and amusing little book, though not very conclusive. The author and his wife have evidently passed some very pleasant winters in Germany,. Spain, Italy, and Algiers, with delightful results as to health, The results of their observations are deserving of study by those who hare means and leisure to follow and profit by their example, but practically, they seem to have found winter climates "much of a muchness," and the weather in no latitudes efficacious against sight-seeing, and that bugbear of "Joey B.," in "Dombey," "not wrapping up enough."