Bordighera and the Western Riviera. By Frederick Fitzroy Hamilton. Translated
from the French by Alfred C. Dowson. (E. Stanford.)—This volume is a quite exhaustive treatise on the subject with which it deals. Bordighera was, it seems, first brought into notice by a tale which some of our older readers will remember, not, we feel sure, without pleasure, "Doctor Antonio." (This was pub. lished between thirty and forty years ago.) Since then Bordighera has increased in favour and prosperity, though it has not reached, and is not the worse for mit having reached, the magnitude of Cannes, Men. tone, Nice, dm The sanitary statistics of the place seem satisfactory. A death-rate of twenty-two in the thousand is not an ideal proportion, but, as the native population is taken into account, fairly good. As to temperature, " Bordighera is warmer than its neighbours in mid- winter, but cooler in the spring and autumn ;" but the difference is not considerable. The mean rainfall is about thirty inches. Windy days, a very serious drawback to invalids, are not over-frequent, about one in eight. Six out of ten days are absolutely calm. There is a very complete account of the climate in Part III. Part II. gives us the history of the place and its neighbourhood ; Part IV., its geology, fauna, and flora.
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