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England to Delhi. By John Mattheson. (Longmans.)—This sumptuous

volume of travel is a record of a merchant's visit to India, made seven years ago, and, as we read in the preface, with the object of business, not bookmaking. It is better worth preserving and publishing than such records commonly are. Mr. Wilson is evidently a man of culture, and of a certain power of shrewd observation ; and his book, though some- what alarming in size and shape, may be read, with such selection exercised as may seem fit, with some gain and pleasure.