22 MARCH 1884, Page 25

Reminiscences of Travel in Australia, America, and Egypt. By Richard

Tangye. (Sampson Low and Co.)—These sketches are more amusing than edifying. Mr. Tangye has not gone beyond the beaten track ; but he keeps his eyes open, sees what is going on, and can transfer to paper his observations by the help of a fairly skilful pen and a pencil which, we imagine, bad its use been cultivated, would have been the superior instrument of the two. There is a little sketch, for instance, at the top of p. 226, "In the Suez Canal," which, with a very few strokes, gives a capital idea of the place. Some of the figures, too, are very spirited.