- Uncle John's Adventures. By Mrs. Sale Barker. (Rontledge and
Sons.)—" Uncle John " tells his nephews and niece how he went out to New Orleans (being, of course, shipwrecked on his way), how he went to a friend's house on the Mississippi, and how, -in company with-this friend, he met with various adventures on the prairie, escaping from Indians, grizzlies, and all the other familiar dangers of the place. The hero is adventurous, and, on the whole, successful; and there is a comic Irishman ; generally, the reader may consider him- self well provided for. Some shorter toles complete the volume. From the same publishers we have also a reprint of Adventures in Australia, by W. H. G. Kingston ; and of an older favourite, A Simple Story, by Mrs. Inohbald. We have also new editions of what the writers of the present day will not easily equal, not to say surpass, the stories of Harriet Martineau, which Messrs. Routledge now re- publish in four neat volumes. These are, if it is necessary to recall their names, Feats on the Fiord, Settlers at Home, The Peasant and the Prince, and The Crofton Boys.
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