The Family Guide to Brussels, By J. R. Scott. (Stanford.) — This
book is not a " Guide " in the ordinary sense of that word, i.e., it does not describe the sights of the place, but it gives all the information which is required by persons wishing to take up their residence there ; tells them, for instance, what they may be expected to get in the way of houses or apartments, furnished or unfurnished ; what schools and teachers there are ; what they will have to pay for provisions, carriages, and other things, whether necessaries or luxuries; in fact, helps them to make up their mind whether it will answer their purpose to go to the city, and, having made it up, how they may use their means to the best advantage. Wo cannot pretend to judge of the value of the information thus given, except so far as to say that it seems to comprise all that one would want to know under the circumstances. It might, we think, have boon more conveniently arranged. A sort of price-list, comprising the articles that may be considered the necessaries of life, would have been a useful addition.
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