The Blue Guides : England. Edited by Findlay Muirhead. (Macmillan.
16s. net.)—We can heartily commend to American and foreign visitors and also to English readers the new " Blue Guide " to England. It is as good in its way as the first volume of the series, which dealt with London, and that is saying much. The book is well planned, both for the railway traveller and for the motorist, and the more important and interesting places on each route are judiciously chosen and accurately described. A guide-book of less than six hundred pages cannot pretend to be exhaustive, but in testing it here and there we have been surprised and delighted to find how much that is noteworthy has been included. Rigorous selection and concise statement are the elements of Mr. Muirhead's successful method. The maps and plans are numerous and excellent. Prefixed to the guide- book are an interesting " Introduction to the Study of English Monuments " by Professor Baldwin Brown and some useful pages of " Practical Information," including a short " glossary of English terms for Americans and Colonials " to remind them that a ' road," for instance, is not a railway, nor is a " biscuit " the equivalent of a " tea-roll."
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