31 MARCH 1923, Page 22

Unimpeachable and thoroughly up to date as a guide book,

Mr. Aspinall's solid little volume will repay the most casual browsing. It has the detail of a Baedeker, and is sometimes as interesting as a good travel book. From .much buried treasure we cull Richard Ligon's account (1678) of Coles Cave, Barbados :—" The runaway negroes often shelter themselves in these coverts for a long time, and in the night range abroad the countrey, and steale pigs, plantins, potatoes and pullin, and bring it there ; and feast all day upon what they stole the night before ; and the nights being dark and their bodies black, they scape undiscern'd."