Notes on the Island of Corsica in 1868. By Thomasina
Camp- bell (Hatchard).—We noticed, a few weeks ago, a book called A Winter in Corsica. This work supplements and, in some measure, corrects its information. It reassures us especially on the subject of food, which we had been led to believe very bad. The fish, for instance, which the first writer described as worthless, are declared to be especially good. We are not quite sure, however, that we can implicitly trust Miss Campbell in this matter; we find her saying on one occasion that the diligence stops at a certain place for breakfast, but that "breakfast will seem to a botanist a waste of time." Generally we ,get a favourable impression of Corsica, as a place of winter and spring residence ; one attraction it seems to have which ought to distinguish it among the southern winter resideuces,—it has very good trout-fishing. The reader will find some interesting accounts of tours to be made, and useful information about diligences, &c.
We have received a third edition of Mr. Parker's valuable Treatise on Conic Sections (Macmillan).
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