Black's Tourist's Guide to Derbyshire. Third edition. (Adam and ,
Charles Black.)— Chambers' Handy Guide to the Kent and Sv.g.r Coasts. (W. and R. Chambers).—Bradshaw's Illustrated Handbook to the Tyrol (W. J. Adams).—The first and most expensive of these three publi- cations seems to us to be constructed on the least convenient plan. The tourist's stopping-places are simply arranged in alphabetical order, and it, therefore, leaves the traveller to discover by painful study the best way of seeing the whole county. " Bradshaw's Guide to the Tyrol" is, on the contrary, arranged in routes, every route having its own little sketch map. It is very cheap and portable, and is sufficient for all the purposes of the lover of scenery. We cannot help thinking, however, that it would have been an improvement if a good general map of the Tyrol, which would have enabled the eye to survey the whole country at a glance, had been substituted for the rather paltry illustrations. Chambers's plan is to fix on certain towns along the coast, and treat them as centres from which the tourist makes his daily excursion. This is probably the way in which most English people do see their own country. Abroad they travel, at home they take lodgings and explore the neighbourhood. The six places selected for Kent and Sussex are Gravesend, Rochester, Margate, Dover, Hastings, and Brighton; and there is an excellent map most conveniently folded for reference. The Messrs. Black, of course, deserve the palm in the matter of type, paper, and illustrations.
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