From China to Peru Over the Andes. By Mrs. Howard
Vincent. (Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—Mrs. Howard Vincent writes agreeably about the humours, perils, and pleasures of travel. She happened to reach Brazil just when the Army and Navy were fighting it out under the leadership of Admiral de Mello and General Peixoto. Buenos Ayres was the next place cf im- portance that the travellers visited. After the town came the " camp " or country, and after this again the passage over the Andes, where the route at one place reaches the altitude of 13,000 ft. (Mont Blanc is 15,781 ft.) Peru left an unfavourable impression ; the war with Chili has ruined it. An appendix, full of valuable matter, has been added by Colonel Howard Vincent. He tolls us about the "Nitrate Fields," the West Indies, the Panama Canal, and other matters of interest.
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