The Cathedrals and Churches of Rome and Southern Italy. By
T. Francis Bumpus. (T. Werner Laurie. 16s.)—Mr. Bumpus begins with an interesting classification of the churches of Rome, which will be a help to people who wish to increase the pleasure of a visit to that city by understanding something more of the aims of the old builders than can be achieved by haphazard sight- seeing. This is followed by a description of St. Peter's, which he compares and contrasts with St. Paul's, and an accmmt of some eighteen "of the most valuable and interesting" churches he has visited, "whether from an architectural or historical point of view." In the latter part of the book he discusses the architecture of Southern Italy, and describes a number of its cathedrals and churches. He also gives us many excellent photographs, a coloured frontispiece, and index.
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