BOOKS ABOUT ROME.
What a fascination there is in reading a guide-book to Rome for any one who has ever lived in the Eternal City ! It matters.- not what kind of a guide-book it be,--a matter-of-fact and business- like work giving detailed information or a superficial sketch. Even a sentimental work such as Father Chandlery's Pilgrim Walks in Rome (Manresa Press, 5s.), in which miraculous pictures and images are described, and in which Garibaldi is spoken of as a" desperado," is of interest —The new edition of Hare's Walks in Rome, Brought up to Date by St. Clair Baddeley (Kagan Paul, Trench, and Co., 10s. 6d.), is a very useful and convenient book, full of interesting quotations from historical authors.—A smaller com- panion volume by the same authors, Days near Rome (10s. Od.), is a valuable addition, as most guide-books give a very meagre account of the towns and villas which are so well worth visiting in the neighbourhood of Rome.—Rome. By W. T. Field. (Brimley Johnson and Ince. 10a. 6d.) —The two volumes of this work deal separately with the Rome of the "Ancients" and of the "Artists," and maw be .described as a pleasantly written sketch. That "the work is superficial may be judged from the fact that in the few lines which deal with the stanza the miracle of Bolsena is not mentioned, and yet for mere execution it is perhaps the greatest fresco in the world.
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