6 JUNE 1868, Page 24

Practical Notes on Wine. By Edward Lonsdale Beckwith. (Smith and

Elder.)—The pleasant chapters which compose this little book are a reprint, with additions and corrections, of Mr. Beckwith's official report on the winos at the Paris Exhibition. Although the facts col- lected here are net new to those who have made wine their study, they will be of service to that part of the public which drinks by the price- list. Such statements as that there is little or no sillery which is genuine, that champagne prepared for the English market is more con- spicuous for strength than flavour, and that of the most famous clarets a hundred times as much as is actually produced is sold openly every year, cannot fail to have their effect, especially when they come from an " associate juror and reporter."