18 JULY 1903, Page 23

North-West by North. By Stanley Lane-Poole. (Hodges, Figgis, and Co.,

Dublin. 3s. 6d.)—A "Congested District" in Ireland and a region in the North Riding of Yorkshire are the places in whioh, for the time at least, Professor Lane-Poole has chosen to take his holiday, and about which he writes. A "Congested District" is • not such a dismal place as one would think. If the people would do a little more to help themselves, drink less whisky, and be careful about the contagion of consumption, they would be as well off as others. Yorkshire Dalesmen are, in a way, the contra- dictories of West Country Celts, and, in another way, are curiously like. Our author draws out the contrast and the parallel with no little skill ; he has given us, in fact, as one- might expect, an eminently readable book.