The Great Streets of the World. By Richard Harding Davis,
Andrew Lang, and others. (J. R. Osgood, Mcllvaine, and Co.)— Broadway, described by Mr. R. H. Davis, leads the way ; Mr. Davis moralises with tufficient moderation and good taste, preaches a little sermon to the money-grubbers of Wall Street, and generally makes a good use of his subject. Mr. Andrew Lang follows with Piccadilly, chatting, agreeably about the present and still more agreeably about the past. (W e are doubtful, by-the- way, whether Broadway and Piccadilly are as characteristic streets as might be found in the two cities.) " The Boulevards of Paris " afford a somewhat more fertile subject to M. Fran- claque Sarcey. This is a kind of writing in which a Frenchman feels himself peculiarly at home. Mr. W. W. Storey describes the Corso of Rome, Mr. H. James the Grand Canal of Venice, Paul Lindau the Berlin promenade, Unter den Linden, and Miss Isabel F. Hopgood the Nevsky Prospect. The book ie copiously illustrated ; we wish that we could say that our English street showed up as well as any of the others.
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