Rugby—Tennessee. By Thomas Hughes. (Macmillan and Co.)— To readers of
the Spectator, it will be sufficient to say that they have here reprinted, with additions, the letters which appeared in this journal describing the new settlement in Tennessee. These additions are some words addressed to those, whether gentle or simple, to whom the opening and opportunities afforded by this settlement appeal ; an address delivered at the opening of the town site of Rugby, last October ; another address delivered by Mr. Hughes at the English Rugby, after his return ; some supplementary " latest views," which appeared last February in Macmillan's Magazine ; and not the least important, the report, by Colonel Killeerin, Minister of Agriculture to the State of Tennessee, on the character of the soil, and of the vegetable products to which it is best adapted. Andrew Jackson, it seems, predicted that it would become the " Garden of Tennessee." Let us hope that it may become so, under the care of gardeners whom he certainly did not contemplate.
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