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REVIEWS AND BOOK NOTICES. 



Picturesque Yorkshire (York and the North Riding-). By William 

 Andrews. (Valentine & Sons, Dundee, ii8 pp.) 



In this well printed and attractive little volume the principal 

 charm unquestionably lies in the 40 beautiful plates. In 

 fact to all appearances the letterpress has been written to 

 describe the plates, as no one — not even Mr. Andrews — can 

 be expected to describe the beauties, antiquities, and scenery 

 of, and quote the poems, epitaphs, and traditions relating- to 

 York, Malton, Middlesbroug-h, Scarborough, Pickering-, Whitby, 

 Northallerton, Thirsk, Richmond, Leyburn, Runswick, and the 

 35 other places touched upon in the volume, in 118 by no means 

 •closely printed pages. To deal with York alone Mr. Andrews 

 occupies to pag-e 48, thus leaving 70 pages for descriptions of 

 the 45 principal places in the Riding — an average of about a 

 page and a half to each. Only Mr. Andrews would attempt to 

 do this, and he has done his share in his characteristic style. 

 In order to give a better idea of the nature of the plates, we 

 are permitted to reproduce one herewith^ (Plate XXIV.), though 

 as the pages of ' Picturesque Yorkshire ' are fully an inch less 

 than a page of this journal, it will be seen that the blocks are 

 rather large for the size of the book. The volume is neatly 

 bound, but unfortunately it nowhere bears the date of publica- 

 tion, it has no index, neither is the price stated, though we are 

 informed it is sold at half-a-crown, which is very cheap. 







Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe. By J. A. Harvie- 

 Brown, F.L.S., etc. T. Fisher Unwin. 2 vols. 541 pp., plates and 

 maps. Price 3s. 



In these two handsome volumes, our valued contributor, 

 Mr. Harvie-Brown, presents to the naturalist world the results 

 of three journeys made to Norway, Archangel, and Petchora in 

 187 1, 1872, and 1875 repectively. In his preface the author 

 g-ives good reasons for not having published his observations 

 previously. Those who know Mr. Harvie-Brown and his 

 numerous writings will naturally expect to find the greater part 

 of his recently-published volumes devoted to the fascinating- 

 study of ornithology. In this they will not be disappointed, 

 though, inter alia, there is much valuable information likely to 

 be of service to the geographer or traveller. The volumes are 

 arranged on the lines of the very interesting diaries which 

 Mr. Harvie-Brown kept during his various rambles. On his 



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