FRANCE. By Gordon Home.
Mr. Gordon Home's chapters cover many aspects of French life, and give the reader a comprehensive vision of the land from Boulogne to Mentone and Bayonne. Political life, home life in town and country, the duel, marriage arrangements, the navy, architecture, the doctor, the priest, the midinette, the constitution, the great rivers, the watering-places, hunting, vine-growing, and school life are a few of the many topics that come in orderly sequence in the book. After reading the volume and studying the pictures, even those who know France well will probably understand some aspects of it more clearly, and those who have yet to cross the English Channel will go there understanding much that might otherwise puzzle them.