The Cities of Northern Italy. By George C. Williamson, Litt.D.
(Grant Richards. 3s. 6d. net.)—This volume carries on the series of " Historical Guides " which was initiated by Mr. Grant Allen, and which he had intended to carry out, it would seem, unaided. The scheme was interrupted by his death. It was not for any one man to take it up. The work, accordingly, has been put, so to speak, into commission. Dr. Williamson gives us here the first volume of the renewed succession. Florence and Venice, it will be remembered, had been separately treated by Mr. Grant Allen. We have now in this volume Milan, Verona, Padua Bologna, and Ravenna. Books of this kind are not to be criticised in the ordinary way. It must suffice to remark that the method followed by the original projector of the series seems to have been followed with adequate success.
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