Chester. Painted by E. Harrison Compton. Described by R G.
Duckworth. (A. and C. Black. Is. 6d. net.)—" I have not attempted a guide-book to Chester," writes Mr. Duckworth in his preface, "nor yet a history." He has tried to "catch and fix the atmosphere of Chester in different periods of its history." Put into plain English—we sometimes are inclined to wish that ho was a little plainer—the author has taken various scenes from Roman, Saxon, Norman, and later times and given them a picturesque setting, just as the artist takes an old house, as Stanley House, or a row of houses, as Watergate Row or Water- gate Streot, and shows them to us with duo accessories of light, - colour, dce. It is well done, and the book is distinctly interesting to read, as it is attractive to look at. The chief object in Chester
is of course the Cathedral, but it does not stand as high among English Cathedrals as Chester itself does among English towns. Justice is done to its beauties here. But could we not have been allowed to see something more of the walls ?
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