Lightning Conductors THE worst thing about Grand Tour of Italy
by Eric and Barbara Whelpton (Robert Hale, 18s.) is its name, which inevitably suggests a comprehensive itinerary. Moreover the suggestion is reinforced by the unequivocal and wholly false statement on the dustcover that the authors 'take the reader on a complete tour of the country,' In fact, as the latter part of the blurb vaguely indicates, this is a readable, discursive guide to what might be called the intelli- gent tourist's middle cuts: Milan—Liguria—Tuscany —Umbria—Rome--Naples, and Florence=—Ravenna —Venetia. Considered simply as such it will un- doubtedly, in spite of occasional slips, prove a most useful companion to holidaymakers, for it is full of sensible information. Those who, like the reviewer, are not in favour of extensive lightning tours and think that art-hunters who believe it a waste of time ever to look at anything but 'the best' ought to be given six of them with a length of enriched mould- ing, may find things to vex them. All the same this is a better thought out, more intelligent and service- able work than most of its kind and well worth the money. KELLOW CHESNEY
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