15 AUGUST 1931, Page 19

A GUIDE TO SOUTHAMPTON.

A guide, whether in person or book, is usually a cheat. Tin legged impostor is usually some idle and very ignorant person, who, knowing nothing himself, lives upon those who fancy they know less ) while the information in guide-books is usually cabbaged from son(l county history, whipped up with flummery respecting the gentry and the scenery and the ishoppery of the neighbourhood; answering no rational inquiry, and productive solely of a few pence to the. stationer, who hopes by its means to sell his paper and his work- boxes to the insipids who apply for the guide. The Guide to Southampton is neither better nor worse than guides in general.