19 NOVEMBER 1887, Page 43

Zig-Zug Journeys in the Western States of America. By Hezekiah

Butterworth. (Doan and Son.)—The " Zig-`Lag Club" at Yale School . bears a vast amount of information about the Western States. The Homestead Act is quoted and explained, and the way in which it may be set in motion illustrated ; stories are told of the pioneers of civilisation in the remoter parts of the Haien, and of life as it is now ; there is an account of the Mormons and their city, and the narrative of a tour which some of the boys actually made (for much of their travelling is of the stay-at-home kind). Everything, of course, wears a rose-tint that does not always correspond to the actual colouring ; but the work may be accepted, with reservations, as a useful account of its subject.