2 JUNE 1888, Page 25

London of To - Day. By Charles Eyre Pascoe. (Sampson Low and

Co.)—This, a fourth edition, with an increased number of illustrations, really forms most interesting reading, both for foreigners and natives, and especially for Londoners, who are so proverbially ignorant of their own city. London is large ; but there is no excuse for an ignorance of the Tower. Yet when Mr. Shaw-Lefevre took down five hundred Members of the Houses of Lords and Commons, he found that some four hundred had never seen the interior of England's most famous fortress. The acquaintance which their ancestors have had with its gloomy precincts had sufficed for their descendants.