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In and Around London, by Constance M. Foot (T. C.

and E. C. Tack, 3s. 6d.), is a boy's guide-book to London. It gives on the whole an interesting idea of London both from the historical and from the contemporary points of view. The following, however, is a somewhat unnecessarily frank criti- cism of the Elgin Marbles "You may have heard of these, though perhaps if you saw them you might feel rather dis- appointed, for they look like old, broken pieces of marble, but if you were an artist you would know that they are very beautiful." The book, however, does not profess to have any aesthetic aims, and as a guide to more material questions it is satisfactory.