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In the series of "Little Guides" (Methuen and Co., 2s.

6d. net) we have The Channel Islands, by E. E. Bicknell. The traveller will find in it, we think, all that he can desire.—We may mention at the same time, for the benefit of those who may be content to look for recreative travel in their own land, The Ruins of Fountains Abbey, by the Rev. A. W. Oxford (H. Frowde, 3s. 6d. net). There is no more interesting spot, of its kind, in the United Kingdom. Mr. Oxford has done his work thoroughly, incorporating in his volume (which is of very convenient size) the labours of Mr. W. H. St. John Hope and Mr. J. Arthur Reeves. It is a history of the building as well as a description of its present state.