JANE AUSTEN IN BATH By Laura M. Ragg
All lovers of Jane Austen know that she was intimately acquainted with Bath, where as a young girl she stayed with her uncle, Leigh-Perrot,. and where she lived with her parents from 1801 to 1805. But the visitor to Bath who desires to follow the saunterings of Jane's characters about that delect- able city rarely has the local knowledge which makes Miss Ragg's little book (De la More Press, 3s. 6d.) so interesting and so useful. Miss Ragg has used the contemporary news- papers and guides to good purpose, and she indicates dearly the changes in Bath's topography that have come about since Miss Austen's time. She does not fail to include the one dramatic episode of the novelist's Bath period—the arrest of her aunt, Mrs. Leigh-Perrot, on a false charge of shop-lifting. The little book is well illustrated, but the proofs have been very imperfectly read.
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