The Warwickshire Avon. Notes by A. T. Quiller-Couch. Illus- trations
by Alfred Parsons. (Osgood, Mcllvaine, and Co.)—The author begins his Avon pilgrimage at Naseby Field, one of the English watersheds, seeing that from close to the monument which commemorates the great fight, the water runs down on one side to the Wash, and on the other to the Bristol Channel. He follows the course of the stream, describing as he goes, and having the work of his pen ably seconded by the pencil of his collaborateur. The little landscapes are excellent, "Bow Bridge, on Watling Street," being one of the best. Lutterworth, which is on a tributary, and Rugby are passed with brief notice. In time the stream, not without many turnings, brings the travellers to Stoneleigh Park, the Arden of early days, and thence to Warwick, and so to Stratford, where the halt is briefer than one might have expected ; but then, there is no lack of descriptions of Stratford. Evesham and Tewkesbury are the chief places in the latter part of the tour. The book is altogether a pleasant one. The only fault that we find is the illegibility of the names in the maps.
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