OUR GREAT CITY.
Our Great Oily. By H. 0. Arnold-Forater. (Cassell and Co. Is. 9d.)—"A book at three hundred pages," says Mr. Arnold. Forster, "cannot pretend to do more than give brief extracts from the great volume of the ideal book which has perhaps yet to be written." His book is something more than a com- pilation of extracts from books on the various aspects of London —its topography, its history, its government, its educational and other social activities—which are already published. It is a freshly and lucidly written, well-compacted, and admirably illustrated monograph—at once a guide-book and a manual of what may be termed 'Municipal Imperialism—from the pen of a man who has strong convictions and many useful enthusiasms, and the courage of both. Mr. Arnold-Forster's little book is stimulating as well as informing, and is calculated to inspire boys and adults as well, with pride in the consciousness of belonging to "no mean city." One of the most interesting chapters is the last, on "London as it might be" if it were " areaded," and if in a hundred other ways it were (as it might be) rendered much more beautiful than it is. Altogether this is a work to be most heartily commended to schools and fathers of families.
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