The Clyde : River and Firth (A. and C. Black),
whi.11 is edited by Messrs. M. J. B. Baddeley and E. D. Jordan, is a very good and singularly well condensed guide—it extends only to eighty- three pages—to what is still perhaps the favourite holiday resort, and what is certainly the finest scenery, of Scotland. The traveller is not only told whither he should go and what he will see when he goes, but where he will find a comfortable hotel and how much he will be charged for board. In a volume of this size there is not and ought not to be room for vain repetitions even of Scotch "good stories." The attention of the editors of the work may therefore be called to the circumstance that both at p.22 and at p. 57 there is told the story of the parish minister of the small islands known as the Great and the Little Cumbrae, who used to pry for "the Great and the Little Cumbrae and the adjacent - !ands of Great Britain and Ireland." But the blunders, even of a minor kind, in this book, which, it should be noted, is admirably provided with maps and plans, are singularly few.
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