Pleasant Days in Pleasant Places. By Edward Walford, M.A. (Hardwick°
and Bogue.)—Mr. Walford takes his readers to a number of places which are commended either by the beauty of the scenery or by the interest of their associations. In one or two cases, the captious critics might allege that the beauty lies wholly in the imagination ; but, for the most part, Mr. Watford has chosen places which have the double charm of that which the eyes see and that which the mind recalls. He is always ready, as may be supposed, by all who know anything of his labours in that field, with lore, historical, genealogical, or archaeological. It is difficult to select any of the seventeen pnpens of which the volume is composed, for special commendation, when all are so good ; but we may mention those that deal with those cm-ions relics, the towns of Winchilsea and Sandwich, with the "Moto of Ighthain " and "Cumnor."
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