The approach of the excursion season is bringing forth excursion
books. Of this class, we have before us-
1. ANDERSON'S Tourist Guide through Scotland; a small pocket volume, which contains a good deal of sight-seeing matter in small compass, though rather nakedly stated. The contents of the book are divided into Tours. Tour first carries the traveller from Berwick to Edinburgh. Making the capital a starting-point, the three next send him to Stirling, Perth, &c.; and Glasgow, Loch-Lomond, Inverness, &c. Tour fifth takes him to Staffs and Iona; and a supplementary one describes the coasting-points from London to the Orkney Isles. Besides itineraries to various places, there is a general map of Scotland, and small skeleton maps are prefixed to the Tours.
2. BRADY'S Dover Road Sketch-Book is a handy pocket guide for those who are journeying thither, or part of the way thither, by land. Besides the usual topographical particulars of Graves- end, Rochester, Canterbury, and other towns passed on the route, it contains an account of the prospects to be seen, and the places to be noted as the traveller passes along ; and is accompanied by a rough but ready map of the road. So far as our experience serves us, the author's facts appear correct ; and he declares he has walked the way, and collected the particulars manibus pedibusque.
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