For the visitor who desires to make a fairly long
stay in Paris, Mr. Sisley Huddleston's In and About Paris (Methuen, 15s.) should prove invaluable. He knows " the capital of Europe " very intimately; and offers us a delightful admixture, composed of a little history, a little architecture, and a great deal of pleasant gossip, old and new, literary and social. We feel that we are visiting palaces and picture galleries with a guide who has long loved them, and who chats to us as we go from place to place of treasures great and small, of proud kings and great painters, of the mummy which may be Cleopatra, and the lately found relic which is quite certainly
the preserved heart of Voltaire." Mr. Huddleston can direct us to all the public pleasure grounds of the city and tell us something—so far as a foreigner may—of the private amenities of Parisian domestic life—on the whole, he thinks, the pleasantest home life in the world.
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