28 NOVEMBER 1885, Page 22

The Riviera, by the Rev. Hugh Macmillan, D.D., and Italy

: its Rivers, its Lakes, its Cities, its Art (Virtue and Co.), are two good illustrated works which mutually complement each other. Dr. Macmillan is a well-known writer, from whose pen we always expect and get good work. The other book is anonymous ; but it is one that might well be owned by a writer of reputation, so bright and vigorous is the style, and so invariably readable the matter. The pictures have probably done some service before, and they are not always worthy of their subject (we may instance, in the second-named volume, the "Bay of Palletize") ; but the books may be safely recommended for their general merit.