GREECE AND THE ./EGEAN ISLANDS.
Greece and the Xgean Islands. By Philip Sanford Harden. (A. Constable and Co. 12s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Marden has written very pleasant and useful book. He is half ashamed to think that it is useful, and offers the apology that he is anxious to show hie countrymen—he comes from the other side of the Atlantic—how easy it is to travel in Greece. He begins with Crete, of which he does not tell us as much as we should like to hear, and then takes us to Athens, of which he gives us an excellent description, including the modern city as well as the old. Delphi is the only place in Northern Greece which he visited, and, perhaps, where there is so much to see elsewhere, the limitation was judicious. Then followed a visit to the Peloponnese, a region which recent exploration has made more attractive to the traveller. This region was well explored, more completely than we have seen recorded in a volume of this kind. After the Peloponnese came the Egean Isles. Mr. Marden has, we imagine, just the qualifica- tions that are wanted for the task. He starts with the patience and good sense a traveller needs in Greece as much as he needs them elsewhere. And he has, it is evident, a working acquaintance with classical literature. We can well believe that he knows more than he lets us see, a much more attractive habit than that of the man who puts all he knows on to his paper. There are fifty illustrations taken from effective photographs.
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