3 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 23

The Isles of the Princes ; or, the Pleasures of

Prinkipo. By Samuel S. Cox. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)—Mr. Cox, who was formerly United States Minister at Constantinople, spent part of his time in the Prinkipo Islands,- which lie just outside the Bosphorus, near the Asiatic shore of the Sea of Marmora. He tells something about the islands, about their inhabitants, about his life there, and intersperses his descriptions with a good deal of anecdote, moralising, and the like. Sometimes he is not unlike Mark Twain. When he makes fun, for instance, about Hannibal's grave, one might imagine oneself to be reading " The Innocents Abroad." Altogether, he has given us here a very readable book.