Ups and Downs on Land and Water. By Augustus Hoppin.
(Boston, U.S.: Osgood and Co. London : Sampson Low, Son, and Marston.)—Mr. Hoppin and three friends went by the Nevada steamer from New York on a course of European travel, and took portraits of various men and things on their way. The sketches are slight, filling up, a snarling critic might object, more space than their intrinsic importance entitles them to ; but they are easy and amusing, quite amusing enough to make one go on to the end after opening the book, or to be a useful ornament for the waiting-room of a dentist, or the drawing-room of a lady cursed with an unnunctual cook. "Lost in the Maze," for instance, with the heads ludicrously apparent above the privet hedges, will move laughter. Here and there we see the traces of an unpractised or unskilled hand. The tires of the Londoa cab wheels, for instance, seem extraordinarily thick.
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