Mr. Alfred Rimmer, no doubt, intended his Early Homes of
Prince Albert (Blackwood) to do service as a gift-book. As such, it is likely to be much appreciated. The paper and type are very good, and the illustrations—the subjects of which the title of the book itself suggests—are numerous and admirable. Mr. Rimmer's style is of the better guide-book sort. He is very loyal, but his enthusiasm is sometimes expressed in slipshod English. Thus, speaking of the demonstrations in England on the occs,sion of the marriage of the Queen and Prince Albert, he says,—" In the city of Chester, where these lines are written—and surely it is remote enough, and even more remote in these days from any centre than it is now—the re- joicings were on a scale quite commensurate with the opportunities of the inhabitants?'
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