The Exeter Road. By Charles G. Harper. (Chapman and Hall.
16a.)—This is the fifth volume that Mr. Harper has con- tributed to the literature of the road and the coaching days. Necessarily these volumes have a cdrtain sameness about them. The highwayman always figures largely in theni. Other regular incidents are the fast young nobleman, the churlish or eccentric passenger, the accident, be it by upset, or from some other cause. Mr. Harper describes the towns through which the road passes, and having a pencil which is not less skilful than his pen makes them an interesting subject. His taste, however, is not always of the best. He might, for instance, have spoken more kindly of Holloway College. It is even ridiculous to say that because "no prophetess has yet issued from Egham with a message for the world" the expenditure has been "a waste of good money." Holloway has not been at work for more than fifteen years, and prophet eases are not turned out quite so quickly as books about coaches.
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