20 JULY 1929, Page 11

LITERARY SPECTATOR.

We must not neglect to commemorate a very pretty work, which would have entertained and instructed us mightily had we not happened to know it all before—we mean the Stories of Popular Voyages and Travels. It would make a charming school-book and teach more geography in a week than most boys learn in a year. The lithographic plates are very neatly executed ; and the talent of George Cruikshank bse been called into play.