Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. Painted by Sutton Palmer. Described by G.
E. Milton. (A. and C. Black. 25s. net..)— Mr. Palmer's sixty careful drawings, reproduced in colour, recall pleasantly some of the most famous houses and views in the Home Counties. Miss Mitten's discursive chapters serve their purpose well enough. Her remark that "it is difficult to get a glimpse" of Chequers—which Lord Lee has presented to the nation as a residence for Prime Ministers— because "the ground rises steeply" arourid it, suggests that she paid a very hasty visit, for Chequers stands in the centre of an open grassy plain at some distance from the outlying slopes of the Chilterns. It is true that the house is not easily seen from the hills. Her chapter on "A Literary Pilgrimage" Is by no means exhaustive, but it will remind readers how greatly Buckinghamshire has been favoured by authors—among them Milton, Waller, Gray, Cowper, Burke, Shelley, Peacock, Disrapli, and Grote.
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