London to Melbourne. By M. Longvray (I.C.P.W.) (Remington and Co.)—The
writer started from London in one of the Orient Line steamers, saw Naples and Pompeii, went through the Suez Canal, down the Red Sea, through the Chagos Archipelago, and finally, having started on September 14th, arrived in Melbourne on October 30th. The voyage occupies rather more than half the book, and is sufficiently entertaining. But perhaps the few pages that conclude the book are the best part of it. In them the writer has some sensible advice to give on the per- petually interesting, never exhausted subject of emigration. Among professional men there is the best demand for solicitors ; doctors come next ; engineering work is abundant, but engineers still more so. Clergymen are last on the list. The author thinks that they are commonly very ill-prepared. Possibly he is right.
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