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FOR about thirteen years Mr. Beatty-Kingston acted as a newspaper correspondent, and in this capacity he had to visit many centres of life on the Continent. In the present volumes he offers a selection from the innumerable pen-and-ink sketches taken during his “multifarious peregrinations.” The work, we need scarcely say, has no strictly scientific interest; but it is fresh and amusing, and will no doubt give pleasure to many a reader who has never had an opportunity of seeing the places described in its lively pages. The author is particularly successful in the chapters devoted to Germany, where he seems to have had exceptional means of making himself acquainted with the characteristics of the various classes of the community.
A Wanderer's Notes.
By W. Beatty-Kingston. In Two Vols. (London: Chapman and Hall, 1888.)
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 38, 196 (1888). https://doi.org/10.1038/038196c0
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