12 MARCH 1892, Page 25

About Ceylon and Borneo. By Walker J. Clutterbuck. (Long- mans.)—Mr.

Clutterbuck has seen some interesting countries, and is not without some gift of description. If he would only not try to be humorous ! Imagine a man writing, seeing in type, and actually passing for press such a sentence as this : "You had news from England of your mother-in-law's death, or other in- cidents which brightened up your future " !