Torquay : Past and Present. By Spencer Thomson, M.D. (J.
and A. Churchill.)—This brightly-written sketch of one of our most delightful sea-side resorts will not fail to interest many readers. It is as a winter residence that Torquay has been specially celebrated ; but it may also lay claim to a climate equable in summer, and exempt from those scorching heats which now and then dwellers in and around London, and in the midland counties, must experience. Dr. Thomson gives statistics of temperature and rainfall which will correct many misapprehensions on this score, Wo learn some curious facts about the early history of Torquay. In 1780, a few fishermen's and villagers' houses, an old manor-house overlooking the harbour—then a very limited enclosure—a water- mill, &c., formed the nucleus of this now important place,
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