Practical Swiss Guide. Ninth Edition. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.)—If Mr.
Bail's "Alpine Guide" is the beau ideal of a mountaineer's handbook, this is certainly that of the ordinary tourist—the traveller with no particular tastes, scientific or artistic, but who wants to onjoy himself and see " all that ought to be soon." The "Practical Guide" takes him from London to Genoa, giving every possible kind of infor- mation about his route, and as it were on the way minutely describes Switzerland, or at least that part of it which is accessible to people who sleep in inns and do not climb. This edition has been revised and some useful plans added. Also a few rather flippant notes have been cut out, an improvement which might be advantageously carried further. It is astonishing how much a guide-book adds to one's enjoy- ment which tells one which aide of a railway-carriage to sit. It makes all the difference between enjoying the day's journey and seeing nothing, for if you miss the right seat some one else gets it, and keeps it. In giving this sort of minute information the "Practical Guides " are unique.
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