On Sunny Shores. By Clinton Scollard. (Gay and Bird.)- "
We could not tarry long within doors, for the birds in the hedges called to us, the fair rays beckoned, the whole world invited." It is in the style and spirit of the foregoing sentence that the volume is written. The author is, in fact, an enthusiastic open-eyed globe-trotter--whether male or female it is not easy to say—who has a considerable stock of poetical quotations and a not unpoetical temperament, and great facility in gushing over whatever arouses his (or her) enthusiasm. The " sunny shores " are numerous enough, for they include the region of the Wye, the Lake Country, the Isle of Wight, the Tyrol, Bellaggio, Verona, Greece, and Syria. The book, if suggestive of too easy writing and too easily excited ardours, is full of accurate word- photographs ; and the enthusiasm of the author, if it is occasion-
ally redundant, is undoubtedly contagious. The value of the letterpress has been greatly enhanced by illustrations from the pencil, as we learn, of Margaret Sanders Randolph. Several of these, such as a glimpse of Bellaggio, are exquisite.
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