GuiDE-Boons.—A Picturesque History of Yorkshire, Part 111■ By J. S.
Fletcher. (J. M. Dent and Co. Is. net.)—This part contains the account of the city of York and its neighbour- hood, the Minster naturally occupying a considerable space. The illustrations are excellent. One use of books of this kind is to serve the tourist's need.—We may mention in the same connection :—The Midland Railway Illustrated Guide. (W. Hill.)—Sprogues on the Fells. By A. W. Rumney, (Iliffe and Co. 6d.)—A "sprogue," it may be explained, is Cumber land for "a pleasant ramble."—Hey for the Holidays! By Walker Miles. (R. E. Taylor and Son. 6d.)—Intended for the tourist in Kent, Surrey, and Sussex ; suggestions for rambles, with some comic poems, which may or may not amuse the traveller when he reaches his journey's end.—Our Holidays, and How to Spend Them, by Herbert Saxelby (Brighton Gazette Office), takes us further afield, to the United States and to Egypt.—A seasonable little series of paper. covered books is entitled "Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Painters," by Ethel Hubbard (G. P. Putnam's Sons ; 4s. for the twelve numbers). The one now before us is Meissonier, with a photographic portrait of the artist for frontispiece.
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