Cassell's Guide to Paris. (Cassell, Patter, and Galpin.)—For a pocket
guide-book which is intended to be the companion of a fortnight's stay in Paris, this production is compact and useful. Of course it does not pretend to do more than sketch what the rapid visitor will not be able to- do more than glance at. We should have thought that a little fuller men- tion might have been given to the Louvre both by guide and tourist. The latter is told, " If time permit, the opportunity of passing into the pic- tura galleries should not be lost," yet only two Italian pictures are pointed cud for his approbation. One of these two he would be sure to. notice for its size, even if he could not appreciate it ; but he might pass by the exquisite Raphaels, the deep Leonardos, the two lovely Correggios, and the Tahoe. But the most humiliating passage in the guide-book is the reflection on the barbarous state. of English railways convoyed in the words at parting :—" There is no need to provide yourself with refreshments for the journey, as the arrangements on the French lines- are admirable in this respect, and leave nothing to be desired." No one- can fail to infer from this sentence that travellers in England have to- provide themselves with refreshments.
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