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Prom Hatbour to Harbour. By Mrs. Arthur Boll. (G. Bell

and Sons. 10s. 6d. net.).—This is a well-written history of Christchurch, Bournemouth, and Poole, with the intervening villages. so well known to the visitors who flock to the Hampshire coast. Mrs. Bell deals very fully with Ranulf Flambard's great Priory at Christchurch and with the early history of Poole under the Longespeea. She gives also much space to the exploits of the eighteenth-century "free-traders," who smuggled tea and spirits and fought His Majesty's ships and troops, and to the literary associations of Bournemouth with Sir Henry Taylor, It. L. Stevenson, Mr. Hardy, and others. In fact, the book is very comprehensive. Twelve of the late Mr. Bell's pleasant drawings ate reproduced in colour.