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Of "Guide Books" we have to mention London .(Ward, Lock,

and Co., ls.), and Isle of Wight (same publishers, ls.), the first being in its "twenty-fifth," the second in its " thirteenth," edition, and so needing no commendation from us.—With these may be mentioned Lightning Tours, by Percy Fitzgerald (R. A. Everett and Co., 2s. 6d.) The writer is good enough to mention that they have been performed "mostly within twenty-four hours." They have been published in four daily and one weekly newspaper and in a magazine. Of course, if the readers of papers and magazines want these things they must have them, as they have column-long descriptions of dinners and other things which to the average man seem quite unreadable.