4 OCTOBER 1902, Page 41

Hampstead and Marylebone. By G. E. Mitten and Sir W.

Besant. (A. and C. Black, Is. (3d. and 2s. not.)—This is one of the pleasing little volumes, well written and well printed, which bear the general title of "The Fascination of London." They contain a great amount of information in narrow space, and what they give is generally well chosen. Of course it is always possible to suggest something that might have been said when the subject is London. A propos of Hampstead, a lino might have been given to the Annual "of that ilk," an excellent publication, which we have had the pleasure of noticing more than once, and specially appropriate to the most literary of the suburbs. But the volume is as worthy of praise as its predecessors. In the same praise we may include its companion, The Strand.