CURRENT LITERATURE.
The Handbook to the Mediterranean, by Lieutonant-Colonel R. L. Playfair (Murray), consists of two parts, the first of which is devoted to the countries that 1:e eastward of the Adriatic, the second to the seaboard and adjacent parts of the western regions. It is furnished throughout with excellent maps, and besides containing the usual information which one looks for in guide-books, supplies also not a little reading of a higher kind. The idea of the book is a good one. The shores of the Mediterranean will give a man scenery, climate, and associations which, on the whole, surpass any- thing that is to be found elsewhere; and to be armed with a com- petent and intelligent guide in the compass of one modest-sized volume, is no small advantage to a traveller whoso purse and port- manteau are of moderate size.
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