Through Normandy. By Katherine S. MacQuoid. (Isbister and Co.) —This
is a pleasant book of travel, nicely illustrated by the author's husband, and calculated to form a useful and interesting guide-book for tourists in Normandy, both on and off the beaten tracks. Mrs. MacQuoid did her sight-seeing thoroughly, and she has recorded it, with full geographical, topographical, historical, legendary, and actual particulars. One of the most interesting chapters is devoted to Caen, and the almost unknown, but wonderful institution of Le bon Sauveur. It takes away some of its horror from the thought of madness to read of the thousand maniacs there,—and the asylum for the insane is only a department of the institution. Mrs. MacQuoid has missed no- point of interest in this tour, which she informs us may be made in six weeks, at a cost of 440 to each traveller, that sum including the charges of the best hotels. She recommends diligence-travelling, in preference to railways always, and indeed, such a journey as she has made could only be done by diligence -in most instances. .Wheushe- penetrated into the hidden nooks of beautiful Normandy, all public con- veyances failed, and private carriages had to be resorted to.
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