The North - Devon Scenery-Book. By George Tugwell, MA. (Simpkin, Marshall, and
Co.)-Mr. Tugwell, who has already published a "Hand- book to North Devon," which, from his account of it, must be a re- markably business-like publication, has thought it possible that some people might desire to have a fuller notion of the peculiarities of the country through which they are to travel than can possibly be derived from his former work. Accordingly he has published a "Scenery- Book" as a kind of companion to his "Handbook," consisting mainly of verbal descriptions of scenery, interspersed with versions of legends and stories supposed to have been picked up on the spot. Mr. Tug- well's book is pleasantly and intelligently written, and will, we have no 'doubt, be an acceptable companion to many of the visitors to the county
which it describes. It seems to us a pity, however, that he has thought it advisable to put the information which he has to communi- cate into the mouth of a fictitious merchant's clerk, in whom it is a clear impossibility to take any interest whatever. Mr. Tugwell's descriptions are accompanied by some remarkably hard illustrations in chromolithography, from drawings by a gentleman who is succinctly described as H. B. Scougall, M.A., Cantab.
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