28 MARCH 1891, Page 26

Blossom - Land and Fallen Leaves. By Clement Scott. (Hutchin- son and

Co.)—Mr. Clement Scott, having seen and enjoyed many delightful places—having, as he confesses in his preface, helped to make them less delightful by writing about them—now seeks to console himself and the world by putting together this book. There are thirty-one papers, and they take us from Cromer, whore, indeed, ho lingers longer than he does anywhere else, to various places at home and abroad,—to Etretat, for instance, to Rheims and the cellar where the Pommery champagne is stored, to Cumberland and an otter-hunt (which seems to have been as fruitless as that sport commonly is), to Geneva, to Ems, and to Wiesbaden. About all, about their scenery and their people, he discourses pleasantly enough.