Country Rambles, and Manchester Walks and Wild Flowers. By Leo
H. Grindon. (Palmer and Howe, Manchester ; Simpkin and Marshall, London.)—Mr. Grindon's volume suggests to the ordinary reader, and must suggest much more forcibly to country-loving dwellers in Manchester and neighbouring Lancashire towns, some melancholy reflections. Part of it was published some twenty-five years ago, and twenty-five years have wrought a sad change, not wholly due to the growth of Population and other necessary causes, but some of it the work of bad-taste and wanton destruction. Still, it is something to have an appreciative record of vanished beauties. Happily, too, much remains to be enjoyed, and to this Mr. Grindon is an agreeable guide, just as he is a sympathising historian of the past. Nothing in his book is more interesting than his notices of the artisan botanists and entomologists whom the Lancashire towns have produced. The volume is adorned with some agreeable illustrations of buildings and scenery from the pencil of Mr. T. Letherbrow.
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