Quaint Talks about Long Walks. By A. N. Cooper. (A.
Brown and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—Mr. Cooper, with whom we are glad to renew our acquaintance, tells us some of the incidents of eight long walks, the shortest of which covered two hundred miles (Filey to London), the longest seven hundred and forty-three miles (Filey to Rome). He takes a liberal view of his subject, and introduces various matters which are not very closely connected with it. But he always has something pleasant, entertaining, or profitable to say. One advantage of his mode of travelling—too little practised nowadays—is that it gives him a chance of seeing men as well as cities. Cities are all alike, but men differ. Thus Mr. Cooper finds that the Welsh are different from other folk. It has been in Wales only that he has heard "a rustic saying anything in praise of the beauties of nature." The Welsh have their little defects; but this ought to be counted to them for righteousness.
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