How to Visit the Mediterranean. By Henry S. Lunn. (Horace
Marshall and Son.)—This little guide-book seems primarily in- tended for the use of passengers in Dr. Lunn's short Mediterranean cruises, who, with only two or three days to spare at each port, do not wish to buy the numberless guide-books which would be necessary to cover their places of call. To such people this work would be very useful, as the information is quite correct as far as it goes. In certain sections, notably the pages on Greece by Mrs. Mayo, Dr. Lunn has not contented himself with the guide- book outline given in other places, but has included a short historical sketch and an account of how to devote a whole week to seeing Athens. Even in these comparatively restful pages we seem to hear the voice of the conductor of the party begging us to "move on" to the next object of interest. "No one will grudge," writes Mrs. Mayo, "an hour's wandering among the tombs of the principal cemetery of ancient Athens." Considering that some of the most exquisite examples of the funeral art of Greece are here, an hour does not seem too much to devote to looking at them. But this is mere captious criticism. Those who wish to " do " the Mediterranean in thirty or forty-five days with Dr. Lunn will find his guide-book just what they require. Perhaps, indeed, it is not a greater feat to see the whole littoral of the Mediterranean in from four to ten weeks than to compress an account of all the interesting places thereon into a single volume of three hundred and thirty-five pages.
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