Literary By - Paths in Old England. By Henry C. Shelley. (Grant
Richards 103. fid. net.)—The men of letters of whom Mr. Shelley writes—he comes, we gather, from America—are Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, William Penn, Thomas Gray, Gilbert White, Goldsmith, Burns, Keats, Thomas Carlyle, and Thomas Hood. A final chapter is given to "Royal Winchester,' and in this we have some references to Izaak Walton, Jane Austen, and Popo. Penn is the only doubtful name in this list, and it is easy to imagine special reasons for including it. Otherwise, Milton might very well have taken his place. What we have is distinctly
attractive. Mr. Shelley has taken pains with eaob subject ; has brought his personal observation to bear on each scene—he notes, for.instance, that you can see from Stoke Poges Windsor Castle and the "antique towers" of Eton—and collected carefully, when occasion served, local tradition. The volume is amply illustrated with photographs of the places described. We should have liked to see representations of the men as well as of the places which are associated with them.
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