Caravan Days. By Bertram Smith. (J. Nisbet and CO. 58.
net.)—It is sixteen years since Mr. Smith's first caravan was built and taken for a tour in Delamere Forest. He tells us that he had previously had much experience of " go-as-you- please" tours, on foot, in boats, and in pony-carts. But he at once fell a victim to the charms of " caravanning," which he regarded partly as an adventure, but chiefly as a means of escape from the cares of the office and the distractions of town life. "What I wanted was to get away, to harness my horse and drive off, to enter a new world where all my old habits were broken and all my old occupations were suspended." He has now become more of an epicure in travel, and must have an aim before him in starting on a caravan trip—a sad declen- sion from his first golden age of nonchalance. In this book be gives an engaging account of some of his experiences.
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