25 JUNE 1864, Page 21

A Guide to the English Lake District. Intended principally for

pedes- trians. By a Cambridge man. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—For once we have a guide-book written with a definite object from which the author never departs. It is a little volume which will go easily into the breast-pocket of the coat, and is of scarcely any perceptible weight. It has four section maps on stiff paper to be consulted by the traveller on his journey, and a larger key-map of the whole district in which lightness is the desideratum. It is easy to avoid tearing a map which would only be consulted indoors and at leisure. The practical informs-

tion as to which are the most beautiful roads or passes, which moun- tains afford the best views, where to stop for the night and how to steer over the wilder tracts of country, is very full and distinct, and there are no laboured descriptions, by means of which almost all guide-books, Murray's not excepted, carefully take the edge off every beautiful bit of scenery one visits.