27 JANUARY 1894, Page 12

Memorable Paris Houses. By Wilmot Harrison. (Sampson Low, Marston, and

Co.)—Mr. Harrison makes his volume a guide of considerable practical use by dividing it into " Routes ;" of these there are nine, varying in length from three miles to six miles and a quarter. The book is good to read at home, for it is fall of anecdotes, and, we should think—so methodical and detailed is it—very good to take on a visit, indeed on many visits, to Paris ; no short time would suffice for all the notable places mentioned here. A list of the celebrities associated with one street will suffice to show how large and varied is the interest which attaches to the volume. In the Rue du Faubourg St. Honor6 we have General Changarnier, Petion, the Girondist, the Abbe SiOyes, constitution-maker, Guizot, the Princess Borghese, Pauline Bonaparte (her house is now the British Embassy), Marshal Marmont, Marshal Beurnonville (chiefly remembered for his despatch, in which he put the enemy's loss at ten thousand, his own at a drummer's little finger," after three hours of terrible fighting "), Adolphe Thiers, the Marquise de Pompadour, Chateau- briand, Lally Tollendal, the Marquis de St. Lambert (a poet praised by Voltaire), Count Mole, the Marquis de Boufilers, Joseph Lagrange, mathematician, and Gustave Flaubert.