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By Italian Seas. By E. C. Peixotto. (Hodder and Stoughton.

12s. net.)-Mr. Peixotto can draw well, as his courtyard of the

University of Genoa shows, and the chapter called " Giuseppe's Christmas" is a charming account of a poor family in Naples. The description of the Dalmatian coast-towns, with their wonder- ful remains of past civilisations, is very interesting.