Jenkinson's Practical Guide to the English Lake District. (Stan- ford.)—We
have suffered a long, an unduly long, time to elapse before noticing this volume. For our first delay we can but plead the enormous demand which is continually being made on these columns ; but the proper time having once passed, a further postponement was necessary. It is but little more than a month since one began to think it possible that there might again be found a pleasure in lake and mountain. To introduce Mr. Jenkinson, admirable guide as he is, to our readers while they were suffering from a drenching winter or a singularly- ungenial spring, would have been, indeed, absurd. But a more convenient season has arrived, and we perform the ceremony with the greatest pleasure. A more useful companion, we can honestly say, could not bo found. It would possibly be too much to say that Mr. Jenkinson has trodden every foot of ground which is figured in his maps, but he has certainly spared no pains, not only of inquiry, but of actual personal labour, to make his book complete. Of every important route or locality he speaks from his own knowledge, and of many, too, that can hardly be called important. In fact, his acquaintance with the district is as complete and thorough as possible. Lot every visitor to the Lakes take Mr. Jenkinson's volume, and never part company with it. If, with it in his pocket, he fails to see anything that he ought to see, or over loses his way, it will not be the fault of his guide.
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