Sussex. By F. G. Brabant, M.A. Illustrated by Edmund H.
New. (Methuen and Co. 3s.)—Mr. Brabant's Sussex consists of two parts, a general description of the county, physical, social, and historical, and an account of the localities alphabetically arranged. Mr. Brabant argues for this plan, as against that of routes ; probably he is right, unless, indeed, the route arrange- ment is worked out on a much larger scale, or, to put the same thing in another way, much smaller districts are taken for each volume. Mr. New's illustrations are admirable, and Mr. Brabant as an antiquarian leaves little to be desired. But the book is not quite "up-to-date." The large map at the end is labelled "County of Sussex," but it contains consider- able portions of Kent and Hampshire, which should have been distinguished in some way. The small "Hoed and Railway" map in the beginning should have the Rother Valley Branch Railway (now open).—With this may be mentioned a little volume, Week-Ends in Dickens Land, written and illustrated by Duncan Meal (J. H. Goldwin, Rochester, is.), described as a "Bijou Handbook for the Cyclist and Rambler."
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