17 SEPTEMBER 1910, Page 24

Autumn Impressions of the Gironde. By I. Giberne Sievekinp (Digby,

Long, and Co. 3s. 6d. net.)—We read of not a few inter.- esting things in this book, a book written, it is easy to see, with a certain enthusiasm. We hear of women working in the fields, and even on railway lines (we pride ourselves on having almost abolished field labour for women) ; of an hotel proprietor resenting his guests' desire to lock their doors ; of oysters at three-halfpence the dozen (at Arcachon) ; of shepherds on stilts; of a church warmed and left open at night as a sort of casual ward,—to take a few examples out of many. This is a most readable book.