Au alia as It Is. By a Clergyman. (Longmans.)—Some interest-
details and anecdotes are given in this book, but the author does not seem to have sifted the gossip he picked up, or to have viewed it without prejudice. We allude especially to his political chapter at the end of the look, to which we are referred with a grand flourish of trumpets, but in which we find scarcely anything that seems trust- worthy. The accounts of people being lost in the bush are interesting, especially the story of the man who rode round and round on his own track, and always thought the path before him was becoming more and more distinct. Another matter which may be noticed is the attack made by a male kangaroo on a man out hunting. It hopped up to him, 'clutched him round the waist with its fore feet, and was hopping away with him to a large water-hole, in which it meant to drown him, when his dogs came to his rescue.
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