17 AUGUST 1872, Page 26

Treasures Lost and Found; a Story of Tasmanian Life. By

a Tas- manian Lady. (The Publishing Company.)—" Tasmanian life " seems to us very much like other life, as indeed it is natural that it should be. We lately read and noticed "a story of New Zealand" life, and there the Maori element made a decided novelty. But the colonists have_im- proved the unhappy Tasmanians off the face of the earth—they used, we have read, to have parties for shooting them, as we might have a day with the partridges here—and the "Tasmanian lady" suffers for the misdeeds of her countrymen by lacking this source of interest. To tell the truth, she needs something of the kind. The love-making is somewhat tedious, and the local scenery is not given with sufficient force to make any effective relief.