The World Beyond the Esterelles. By A. W. Buckland. 2
vole. (Rivington and Co.)—In the first part of the work Mr. Bnckland gives us some noteworthy facts concerning Cannes, Hybres, Grasse, Nice, and other towns of the Riviera which are more immediately the world beyond tho Esterelles. The essences of Grasse, the Carnival of Nice, and the gaming.tables of Monte Carlo, all receive passing notice; while some useful notes are added about the history of the places
and their respective values as health-resorts. Leaving the Riviera, the author takes us in imagination by way of Genoa, Pisa, and Civita Vecchia to Rome. He has a very interesting chapter upon the old Etruscan ruins of Corneto, which he rather poetically styles "The City of the Tarquins." Nearly the whole of the second volume is devoted to the antiquities and celebrities of Rome, which afford ample scope for dissertation. In his descriptions of some of the spots in the Imperial City, the writer enters into details which for a volume avowedly professing not to be a guide-book must be considered rather unnecessary. After a somewhat lengthened ramble among the temples, palaces, museums, and studios of Rome, we are asked to accompany the author while he tells of the beauties of Naples and other southern cities. He then takes us north again, and we have a very graphic account of the interesting objects in Florence, Bologna, and Venice. Mr. Buckland's style is simple, and in some places grace- ful, and his matter is well arranged, little bits of illustrative gossip being interspersed here and there in the midst of delineations which would otherwise be dull and tiresome.
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