30 MARCH 1867, Page 22

Australian Capers; or, Christopher Cockle's Colonial Experience. By Old Boomerang.

(Routledge.)—Fast, spun out, rollicking, and tedious, this story seems meant to warn people against going to Australia, if they are not fit to live there. The warning would be all the better for being conveyed in a smaller compass, and the author would be the more readily believed if he consulted nature.