aedeker's Italy. Part II., Central Italy ; Part III., Southern
Italy. (Williams and Norgate.)—So many English travellers who can read German have put their trust in Btedeker that a translation of his guide- books for the much larger number who cannot read German is decidedly politic. More convenient in form and less exhaustive than the red books of Albemarle Street, the red books of Coblenz are handier for the pocket or the knapsack, and (strange as it may seem to prefer a Ger- man work to an English work on that ground) are terser and more to the point in their style. The old story of the Englishman who, when travelling, entered his name in the hotel books as John Murray, and found that he was always served well and charged little, might fairly apply to Herr Endeker, who is his own traveller. But so far as we can judge, he seems impartial, and he is generally accurate.
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