A hearty word of commendation is due to Two Years
in the Region of Icebergs (S.P.C.K.), a muituns in parvo of 121 pages on Newfoundland. The author, the Rev. F. E. J. Lloyd, was appointed in 1882 to the Mission of the Strait of Belle Isle, in the diocese of Newfoundland, which is composed of fifty-two settle- mente, extends over a coast-line of two hundred miles, and embraces not only the whole of the Northern and a portion of the Eastern coast of Newfoundland, but about forty miles of the coast of Labrador. Here Mr. Lloyd lived for two years, and, in a series of short, simply written chapters, he gives what knowledge he acquired by personal observation and otherwise of the physical features, climate, people, religion, and natural history, and also of the iceberg region. This is not a startling book, but it is an admirable one to put into the handed' a boy with a taste for reading, who is outgrowing tales of adventure, and wishes for realism in geography.
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