Hill Towns of Italy. By Egerton R. Williams, jun. With
Illus- trations from Photographs. (Smith, Elder, and Co. 10s. 6d. net.) —This is a very pretty book, but it is better from an artistic than a literary point of view. The illustrations, many of which are repro- duced from photographs by Messrs. Alinari, some, we suppose, being the author's own work, are most excellent. Representing, as many of them do, little-known and beautiful places, they inspire in a reader's mind that longing for the remoter Italian travelling which is a romantic passion in itself, possessing some of us regularly in the spring of the year. To those who cannot indulge this passion the fascination of such pictures is cruelly tanta- lising. Mr. Williams takes us wandering among the Apennines and in old Etruria. He includes such cities as Perugia and Siena, with their wonderful neighbourhoods, comparatively familiar to some of us ; but it is only the more fortunate few who have visited Viterbo, Bolsena, Orvieto, Narni, Terni, Spoleto, Trevi, Foligno, Arezzo, Gubbio, Urbino, and many more among which this book leads us. It would be quite charming if the author, with all his true feeling for Italy, could have resisted the temptation to indulge in a certain amount of fine writing in his descriptions.
THINGS SEEN IN MOROCCO.
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