27 APRIL 1912, Page 14

In the series of "Grant Allen's Historical Guides" (Grant Richards)

we have The Smaller Tuscan Towns, by J. N. and A. M. Cruickshank. 3s. 61 net.—The book is in geographical divisions, "Northern," " Southern," "Central," &c., and some twenty towns are treated, among the better known being Pisa, Lucca, Siena, Volterra, Montepuleiano, and Cortona. The traveller will find not a few objects of interest in others which, here at least, are seldom spoken of.