TOVEIST-BOOKS.—The Royal Mail Steam Packet Company send us itineraries of
six tours in the West Indies, handsomely illustrated with photographs ; not an inappropriate publication when winter is almost at our doors. Sixty-five days out of fog and frost for £66 seems a good bargain. With this we may mention the P. and 0. Pocket Book (P. and 0. Office). Here, of course, the traveller is offered a wider choice and various helps towards making up his mind. There is a variety of interesting matter,—as, e.g., a list of the P. and 0. ships. This numbers 192, of which 60 are yet in nee. The ' William Fawcett, 1829; heads the list with 206 tonnage and 60 horsepower. Next year is to see the ' Persia,' with 8,000 tonnage and 11,000 horse-power.—Mr. Grant Allen publishes a new edition of The European Tour (Great Richards, 6s ), " a hand-book for Americans and Colonists." It contains an account of what a man should look for in England (42 pp.), France (28 pp.), Belgium rnd Holland (18 pp.), Rhine- land (16 pp.), Switzerland (16 pp.), Italy (111 pp.)—The Guide to South Africa, edited by A. Samler Brown and G. Gordon Brown (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co., 2s. 6cl.), appears in its seventh edition " for the use of tourists, sportsmen, invalids, and settlers." South Africa would not be every one's choice just now ; but there are "stormy petrels" among "tourists, sportsmen, and settlers," if not among " invalids," and any visitor will find this volume highly useful, we might say indispensable.—We may mention also in this connection Two Years in Palestine and Syria, by Margaret Thomas (J. C. Nimmo, 12s. 61) Though not a very brilliant or inspiring story of travel, it may, nevertheless, prove of interest to those who have visited the Holy Land.
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