The Tramp's Handbook. By Harry Roberts. (John Lane. 3s. and
4s. net.)—This is the first volume of a projected series of "Country Handbooks." " Tramp " is a word of more than one meaning. "We call them tramps," said an American who was fwitted with the national lack of a leisured class (fairly well supplied, we imagine, by this time). The ordinary tramp we all know. Mr. Roberts's tramp walks; that is essential, though to the luxurious and the feeble the concession is made of describing Dr. Gordon Stables's movable house. And the genuine tramp is allowed the companionship and help of an ass. So much being premised, this little volume tells him how to tie knots, how to dry his clothes, what tent to have, if a tent he must have, what food he should use, how he should cook it (snails are to be preferred to oysters, and are, we presume, less liable to the typhoid bacillus). On food, indeed, Mr. Roberts is very instructive. From food he goes per Bottum to the stars, which we cannot, it may be said, contemplate with adequate attention unfed.
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