Among the T4tchas of Central Asia. (Southern Publishing Com- pany.)—This
is a satire, not particularly pointed, or ingenious, on modern life. The Tetchari are supposed to have advanced to a con- dition in which the government is exercised by women elected by male voters. The consequences of this state of things seem fairly
satisfactory, though it is sad to observe that the female students of medicine were illiberal enough to prevent by violence young men from entering the schools. Agriculture prospers, for a State farm is so profitable that taxes can be remitted on the strength of the profits which it brings in. The rights of animals are acknowledged, the system of homes for destitute pets being fully carried out, not, of coarse, without some abuses, the cockatoos, for instance, perjuring themselves shamefully when, to get away from dull homes, they swear that they have no visible means of subsistence. There is sorne fun in the book, but scarcely enough to justify its existence.
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