26 MARCH 1864, Page 21

A Week's Wanderings in Cornwall and Devon. By Thomas H.

Mills. (William Freeman.)—This book "lays no claim to the 'dignity of a guide-book," and "abounds not in statistics or other useful but dry information." This is quite true. It abounds in bad puns, and may justly claim to be as wearisomely flippant as the author could wish.