A Fight with Distances. By J. J. Anbertin. (Kegan Paul,
Trench, and Co.)—Former travels of the writer, both in Mexico and Cape Colony, have already appeared in print. He has thus acquired a certain art in describing them. He is careful not to tire us with over-enthusiastic descriptions, or bore us with too many details relating to his personal comfort. Still, his remarks
and views are those of an ordinary, comfort-loving, and (we hope the translator of Camoens will pardon us) somewhat prosaic
Englishman. The unfeeling and jealous manner in which he weighs and reweighs the pretensions of places to beauty jars some- what on a genial, appreciative reader. He has plenty of humour, however, and this is a quality which, with a lively style, carries one on without a halt through his wanderings. His route, some- what erratic, though certainly well planned, was through Quebec, Montreal, Niagara, then through the "Boundary States" to Washington, from thence to British Columbia, and eastward as far as Calgarry. Retracing his steps, he steamed to "Frisco,"
and thence to the Hawaiian Islands, returning back through the Central States to New York, and down the Eastern States to the Bahamas, and back to New York and Liverpool.
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