We have to mention another volume of an exceedingly interesting
and valuable work, Illustrated Travels. Edited by H. W. Bates. (Cassell and 0o.)—The object of the publication is better described by its second title, "A Record of Discovery, Geography, and Adventure." The papers which make up the volume describe recent travel, and they cer- tainly extend over a marvellously large range of country. There is nothing which the adventure of Englishmen does not attempt. Even the ferocious Papuans, the most inhospitable race under the ana, a bold seaman, one Captain Delargy, visited and positively made friends with. The narrative of a journey "From the Senegal to the Niger" (taken from the French of Lieutenant 3Iage), "An Icelander's Notes on Ice- land," "The Caucasus," by Mr. Douglas Freshfield, are, together with others of which we have spoken on a former occasion, some of the most interesting papers in a volume which altogether deserves the highest praise.
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