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alian Highways. By E. Augusta King. (Bentley and Son.) —There

is no need for Mrs. King to apologise, as she is inclined to do, for describing again persons and places that have often been described before. She finds something new, or that seems new from the briskness and force with which it is put, to say about most of the things that she sees. At Pompeii, for instance, though she does not claim any speciality of knowledge, she writes what can hardly fail to interest all readers. Naples, Capri, Rome, Florence, and some of the minor Italian towns, as Orvieto and Siena, are admirably presented in her pages.