GUIDE - Bowis. — Assouan as a Health Resort. By W. E. Kingsford. (Simpkin,
Marshall, and Co.)—Mr. Kingsford gives a variety of facts and figures to show that the climate of Assouan is much to be recommended for certain forms of disease. The winter temperature (November—April) for the years observed has not fallen below 43.6; the maximum is 91. It must le remembered that the dry air makes this heat quite endurable. The purity of the air is a noteworthy characteristic. " It is the driest health resort known in the world." Accommodation in the case of an invalid is scarcely less important than climate. We are told that a new hotel is to be opened this winter.— A fifth edition of Murray's Handbook to Wilts and Dorset (John Murray) is brought up to date. Neither of these two counties is much known, except at one or two spots, as Stone- henge in the former county, and portions of the coast in the latter, but they are well worth exploration, and the explorer could not have a better guide than this.
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