Now that our inland watering-places are once more gaining a
deserved popularity, the entertaining book by Miss Edith Humphris and the late Captain E. C. Willoughby on Cheltenham Spa (Knopf, 10s. 6d.) should find many readers. The authors have sought to collect anecdotes about the eminent people Who hive visited or lived in Cheltenham since it became a spa some two htindred years ago. George the Third; Sarah Siddons, whose father managed the theatre, Harriet Mellon, afterwards Mrs. Coutts and Duchess of St. Albans, Fanny Burney, Byron, Macready, the Duke of Wellington, are prominent among the frequenters of the spa. Colonel Coghill's reminiscences of the Indian Mutiny and of Hodson of Hodson's Horse occur unexpectedly in Chapter 17. Adam Lindsay Gordon, wfio was educated at Cheltenham College, learned more about boxing and steeple- chasing in the town than about the ,classics. This amusing book is well illustrated and his a preface by the late Sir James Agg-Gardner, the " Father of the House."
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