Herbert's Metropolitan Handbook. (Herbert and Co.)—Travelliog- about London and its
suburbs is already a difficult art. Many of its inhabitants know little of it. To strangers, it is utterly perplexing. The neat little volume before as will be a welcome help. It tells us all about " the times of railways, tramways, omnibuses, river steamboats, and cab fares." It gives us "street, environ, and railway maps." Thefts are clear. Perhaps the "street plan" might with advantage be larger. A vast amount of miscellaneous information, the heads of which we cannot pretend to enumerate, completes the volume, which, by the way, is really portable.—Marsh's American Guide to London and Suburbs- (Lockwood), which has reached a sixth edition, is naturally more of a cicerone, giving a brief account of the eights and exhibitions which * stranger may wish to see. The map is a good one ; a judicious use of colour, and an equally judicious system of omission, make it peculiarly Imitable for the purposes of the book. We trust, however, that our American visitors will not return with the idea that a certain brewery, whose proprietors are, it would seem, spirited enough to furnish the map, is the most important, as it is certainly made the most prominent object, in the metropolitan circle.—London ; a Complete Guide to Places of Amusement, tc. (Herbert.)—This is a handsome, illustrated volume, half-guide, half-advertiser. Here we may learn what we may see in London; a very wide range of objects, from Westminster Abbey to the favourite danseuse,—how we are to get about it, bow we are to get away from it. One very useful feature is a list of "railway and steamship routes, with times and fares, from London to the principal cities and places of fashionable resort in Europe." Thus we learn that we can get from London to Rome in two days, at a cost of £7 17s. (second class) ; from London to Constanti- nople in nine days, for £16 17s.
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