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A Visitor's Handy Guide-Book to England and Wales. By Edward

Smith. (George Allen.)—This is written by an American for the special use of his countrymen when on a visit to the "old home." For this purpose it will be most useful. Nor will Englishmen fail to find in it a most convenient, and, we may add, informing, volume. Not less attractive than its convenience and utility is the sympathetic spirit in which it is written.—We have also received a "fourteenth edition" of Black's Guide to Dorset, Salisbury, Stonehenge, 4T., edited by A. R. Hope Moncrieff (A. and C. Black), and the "twenty-first edition" of Black's Guide to North Wales (same publishers) ; The Zig-Zag Guide to the Kentish Coast, described by F. C. Burnand and illustrated by Phil May (same publishers), has been adorned with unusual attractions by a clever pen and pencil ; London Town : "Daily Hail" Guide to London (Beeching,$) ; and, from the same publishers, Tonbridge Wells of To-Day, by W. Stanley Martin and W. P. Low,