My Old Playground Revisited. By Benjamin E. Kennedy. (Hurst and
Blackett.)—This is an account of a ten weeks' tour in Italy. The writer and his wife started on the last day of February, and re- turned to London on May 9th, and tells the story of his experiences, without any novelty indeed, but pleasantly enough. He is, it seems, a practised traveller, and capable of giving advice, which, if only there is no difficulty about means, it will probably be well to follow. The most important counsel that he gives is to take a courier. For a trip of this kind, it would add about sixty pounds to the expense. Of a more negative kind is the advice not to atop at Ceprano, by way of breaking the journey between Rome and Naples. Any one who thinks of making such a trip may read the volume with advantage, but we cannot honestly say that for other readers it has any great attraction.
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