SCOTLAND IN 10 DAYS By J. J. Bell Mr. Bell's
third book on Scotland is as clear, as well- informed, and as readable as the earlier two. He, if anybody, ought to be able to cope with Scotland in 10 Days (Harrap, 5s.). He too, no doubt, would be the first to discourage anyone from "doing" a country at such breakneck speed : but he knows that there are people who have only a fort- night's holiday every year, and like to see all they can in it. And really, with him as a guide, they will get a remarkable lot for their money. He plans alike for the motorist, the railway traveller, and the independent person. He gives times, alternative routes, and stopping places where there is a choice of hotels, &c., and plenty to look at. He throws in pictures (very good ones) and a map : and, being Mr. Bell, he converses so pleasantly all the time that one takes in history, geography, folk-lore, and even geology, with painless unconsciousness. He knows just what to leave out. "I had rather you remembered the look and name of one of our mountains than the measurements of fifty." The tour begins at Edinburgh, works up the East, across to the West, and home by Glasgow and the Trossachs. On the last page comes the story of the minister of the island of Little Cumbrae, who prayed each Sabbath for the prosperity of "the Mackie and Meikle Cumbraes and the adjacent island of Great Britain." Get this book, if you are one of the people in that island.
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