Wt-Luck on Southern Roads. By Ticknor Edwardes. (Methuen and Co.
6s.)—By " Lift-Luck " is meant the chance helpings which the author received from the drivers of various vehicles, from the motor to the humble cart. These "lifts" furnished him with various introductions to people of different ranks and employ- ments, besides giving him opportunities of seeing the country,— the walker is bound to miss some things, though, on the whole, he sees more than the man who rides. The result is a very delightful book of country gossip, of pleasant talks with men and women, and of descriptions of houses and landscapes. Wherever
a reader may open the book he will find something well worth his, notice. Perhaps this is the best way of handling it. He may begin, for instance, with the amusing account of the man who believed that the earth was flat and was troubled at the thought that the men who dug the mines deeper and deeper every year would dig •through it. But let it be remembered that no part should be missed.
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