17 SEPTEMBER 1881, Page 21

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A Voyage in the 'Sunbeam.' By Lady Brassey. New edition.

Longmans.)—Messrs. Longman have issued Lady Brassey's pleasant and picturesque, though rather thin, description of her voyage round the world, in a singularly cheap form. It is only sixpence, with all its illustrations, and the calculation must be that the edition will -obtain a circulation of scores of thousands. It is quite likely that it may. The narrative is extremely lively, and the appetite of the 'half-educated for chatty accounts of distant lands and strange scenes is insatiable. We shall record the success of the experiment with _great pleasure.