A Steam Trip to the Tropics. By J. Hawkes, M.D.
(Charles J. Skeet). —A pleasant narrative of a trip to the West India Islands and some of the ports of Central America. It is merely superficial, Dr. Hawkes having made no stay at any of the places at which he touched. The external features of the different ports are, however, agreeably and picturesquely described, and if the author will in future eschew that " chaff " which is the prevailing fault of the small literature of the day, he may easily enough produce something which will deserve higher praise than we can award to this effort. He little knows how the reader's estimation of him rises when the stale flippancies about the "nigger" which disfigure the greater part of the book are followed by the few' paragraphs of good sense and good feeling about the "negro " which are to be found at page 149.
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