In the West Country. By Francis A. Knight. (Simpkin, Marshall.
and Co.)—There are scene charming descriptions of that romantic West Country, Clovelly, Westward Ho, Dartmoor, Exmoor, Winscomb, and the Mendips, in these collected articles of Mr. Knight. Moreover he is a, true naturalist, and gives us many a sympathetic account of birds and beasts in their haunts, which are all the more charming from their artistic setting of scenery. Nothing is missing either of insect life ; it is all counted in ; so that we have complete pictures of such haunts of peace where the tide of life flows undisturbed. The illustrations are good. The style is, as it should be, lucid, with a keen sense of colour but no straining after effect. We can give no higher praise to these chapters, which are reprinted from the Daily News and the Speaker and enlarged, than to add that the more the reader knows these charming districts the more will he appreciate Mr. Knight's pages.
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