A Lucky Lover. By the Author of " Helen's Babies."
(Clarke and Co.)—This is not so much a story, as a lecture to lovers of the male-kind put into narrative form. The lover is lucky because he has his mistakes pointed out to him before marriage, and is not left to discover them afterwards. There is good sense in the book, and, notwithstanding the want of incident, it is never tedious. We observe that wherever a kiss is described, it is imprinted on. the " brow." This doubtless is "high-toned"
A easefully comprehensive help to travellers will be found in The Tourist's Atlas-Guide to the Continent of Europe, by J. G. Bar- tholomew (Philip and Son). There are 168 maps, including plans of the chief European cities. A table of money appropriately occupies the first place, and accompanying each snap or plan there is a variety of information concerning hotels, cafés, theatres, art galleries, and sights in general. The book is of a size that may not inconveniently be carried in the pocket.—With this may be mentioned The Adula Alps, by W. A. B. Coolidge (T. Fisher Unwin), one of " Conway and Coolidge's Climbers' Guides." The " Adula Alps," it may be explained, are the " Eastern moiety of the Lepontine Alps." Another volume of the "Climbers' Guides " is The Mountains of Cogne, also by W. A. B. Coolidge.— Of other " Guides " and " Tourists' Companions," we have Tourists' Guide About London, by W. J. Lof tie (E. Stanford); Murray's Handbook to Savoy and Piedmont (J. Mussily) ; also from the same publishers, Handbook to Travellers in Switzerland, Part I., " Without Pennine Alps ;" A Handbook to Hastings, St. Leonards, 4'c., by Mary M. Howard (E. Stanford) ; The Great Eastern Rail- way Company's Tourist Guide to Continent, edited by Percy Lindley (30 Fleet Street); Tourist's Art Guide to Europe, by Nancy Bell (N. D'Anvers) (Philip and Son) ; The United States, with Excursions to Mexico (IC. Baedeker).—Also with these may be mentioned a volume which is not intended. in the first instance for pleasure seekers. This is A Guide to Health in Africa, by Surgeon-Major T. H. Parke (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.) Its utility is too obvious to need remark. Surgeon-Major Parke's name is so well known, and his title to speak on the subject so clear, that the testimony borne by Mr. H. M, Stanley's preface is almost superfluous.
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