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Welsh Mountaineering, by Alexander W. Perry (L. TIpcott Gill), gives

practical directions for climbing Welsh mountains (where it is as easy to kill oneself as it is in Switzerland).—Bennett's Handbook for Travellers in Norway (T. Bennett, Christiania), appears in a " twenty-eighth revised edition with sixteen maps." —New Pictorial and Practical Guide to London. (Ward, Lock, and Bowden.)—A twelfth edition.

We have received the fifth volume of English Minstrelsie Collated and edited with notes, &c., by S. Baring-Gould, M.A. The airs arranged by H. Fleetwood Sheppard, M.A., F. W. Russell, B.D., and W. H. Hopkinson. (T. C. and E. C. Jack, Edinburgh.) There are none of the most famous English songs in the volume, but not a few that are well worthy of their place. " Once I Loved a Maiden Fair," " When Daffodils Begin to Peer," " Drink to Me Only" are among the best known.