AU Abroad. By B. A. Clarke. (Ward, Lock, and Co.
3s. 6d.) -The notion of how the three friends whose travels are here related came to travel is humorous in its way, and may serve as a sample. A certain magazine offered prizes for putting together some dislocated letters. Eighty thousand competitors divided the first prize of £2,000; three divided the second, eighteen months of foreign travel,-they spelt "believed" with the "i" and "e" reversed. Hence this book, of which it will suffice to say that it reminds us of Mark Twain.-There is nothing frivolous about The Journal of a Tour in Sicily, by Colonel S. B. Beving-
ton (F. Shaw and Co., is.) The writer is instructive from eover to cover, beginning with calling attention to the proposed barrage on the Thames below Gravesend. When he reaches Sicily he points out various things and places which are worth seeing and can be seen easily. In fact, this little volume would serve well enough as a guide.
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