HOLIDAY BOOKS.—.4 Picturesque History of Yorkshire. By J. S. Fletcher.
(J. M. Dent and Co. is. net.)—This issue, Part V., takes in Sheffield, Lower Airedale, and Leeds (this last being unfinished). It is scarcely fair to criticise omissions where the choice of material is so great, yet we should have liked to have seen some history of Sheffield steel. What could be a more picturesque incident than the discovery of Huntsman's secret by the workman who gained admittance to the works in the character of a wanderer at his last gasp from stress of weather ?— In the class of holiday literature we have to notice a number of "Illustrated Guide Books" (Ward, Lock, and Co., is.) These are Eastbourne, with a chapter on Beachy Head; and another giving a description of Seaford, Newhaven, and the neighbouring villages ; Whitby and its neighbourhood, including Robin Hood's Bay, Glaisdale, Staithes, /cc. (Whitby, it may be mentioned, has three golf-links within reach) ; Switzerland ; Ltandrindod Wells and the Spas of Central Wales (the less known spas being Lien- gammarch and Llanwrtyd, the former of the two containing barium, a valuable agent in cardiac affections, while Llandrindod springs are of three kinds, saline, sulphur, and chalybeate) ; Liver- pool; and London, for London, while largely emptied of its regular inhabitants, receives thousands of visitors from the country during August and September.
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