16 AUGUST 1890, Page 25

Up and Down : Sketches of Travel. By Gilbert S.

Macquoid. (Ward and Downey.)—This is about the thinnest travel-book we have ever read. It is in reality some feeble letterpress in explana- tion of twenty-nine charming illustrations by Mr. Thomas R. Macquoid, R.I. These illustrations take us pictorially from Antwerp to Strasburg, Freiburg in the Breisgau, Berne, Thun, the Gemini, Zermatt, Brieg, the Italian Lakes, Seewis, Davos, and Heidelberg, and finally to the curious old town of Rothenburg, to which four of them belong. They are delightful drawings, full of grace and spirit, and ought to have been "written up to" in a different style.