31 OCTOBER 1868, Page 20

The names to the Solent. By J. B. Dashwood. (Longmans.)—Mr.

Dashwood made his way from the Thames at Weybridge by the Surrey and Sussex Canal into the Arun, descended the Arun to the sea, and sailed round to Portsmouth. He does not seem to have as ready a pen as some other adventurers of the same class, and makes out his little volume with scraps from guide-books, which we could well have spared. Few persons, we fancy, will care to follow his route, which the number of locks, all to be opened by the navigator's own hands, must make tedious. (There are at one place, he tells us, eleven in a single mile.) But what he says about his boat, which is of what is called the "Una," rig, that is, we presume, with one large sail, will be interesting to many readers.