Mr. Jenkinson's Practical Guide to No, th Wales (E. Stanford)
comes recommended to the tourist by more than one decided success of the author in the same line. "While writing this Guide," he says in his preface, "the author has strictly adhered to the plan he adopted in his previous works, and has personally visited every place mentioned, and made memoranda on the spot." When a competent observer, with all the experience which Mr. Jenkinson has accumulated, is willing to take the trouble to do this, he must make a good book. Here we have hints "how best to spend a flying visit to Wales," then for a longer tour. We have a list of mountains, another of lakes and tarns, and a useful vocabulary of Celtic names. Chapters on history, geology, botany, and mining succeed. A fair number of pages, contributed by an expert, are devoted to angling, and then comes the detailed guide. This is a book which supplies some good reading, as well as useful hints.
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