16 DECEMBER 1871, Page 21

Travels in Urugney. By the Rev. J. H. Murray. (Longmans.)—

Mr. Murray's is a sufficiently readable book, making no great effort at being entertaining, but not the less pleasant for that. He saw many men and things in South America, cud tells us what he saw in a straightforward, unaffected way, not concealing certain prepossessions of his own as an Englishman and a Protestant, but being at the Hone time, as far as we can see, free from prejudice. He makes a distinction, for instance, which ovary Protestant would not have the candour to do, between the practical influence of Roman Catholicism in the cities on the West Coast of South America, and the aspect which it pi-inmate in tho towns of the South-east. The contrast is very much, as our renders will probably guess, in favour of the -former. Au appendix gives an account of the prospects of sheep-farming in Uruguay, the upshot of which, as far as wo can make out, is that everything would be as favourable as possible, if a man could sell his sheep.