We have to record the appropriate appearance of a number
of "Illustrated Guide-Books" (Ward, Lock, and Co., is. each). These are, taking the English subjects first in alphabetical order, The Lake District from Carnforth to Penrith and from Shap to the Furness Coast ; The Isle of Wight ; Llandudno and the Northern Section of North Wales ; London; Lowestoft, with Excursions to Norwich, the Broads, 4c.; in Scotland, Oban, Fort William, and the Western Highlands ; in Ireland, The Donegal Highlands ; and on the Continent, Belgium, the Ardennes, and Holland. All the volumes are furnished with good maps, and are otherwise illus- trated, while they are of a weight and size which make them practically available to the traveller. They seem to have met with considerable acceptance, the "London" volume, in particu- lar, having reached, we observe, its ninetieth thousand.—In the "Way-About Series of Gazetteer Guides" (Iliffe, Sons, and Sturmey) we have The Way about Cambridgeshire and Penland, by George Day (1.s. net). We would gladly have had some more details about the Fen Country and the draining of it. Fen Drayton Village, for instance, might have been mentioned, con- taining as it does the house where Cornelius Vermuyden dwelt, and where we may still see his motto, "Niet Zonder Arbyt," over the door.
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