Guienne: Notes of an Autumn Tour. By Algernon Taylor. (C.
Regan Paul and Co.)—Mr. Taylor took up his quarters at a convent of the Premonstrant Order, in a corner of Gnienne ; nor is there anything more interesting and more pic- turesque, in his very pleasing descriptions of men and things, than the pages which he devotes to describing this institution and its inmates. They suggest a very strong wish to become a temporary, if not a permanent inmate, of so calm, so cultured a retreat. Not that the saintly society has not its little failings, which the writer touches with much good-taste and good-humour ; but the impres- sion, on the whole, is that of a very contented and happy life. The architecture of the convent church, as of other places in the neigh- bourhood, is well described, and there are some very pleasing sketches of scenery.
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