Adventures in _America. By Aseott R. Hope. (A. and C.
Black. 6s.)—Mr. Hope has chosen from a great maze of the literature of travel and history a number of striking adventures, limiting himself on the present occasion to the continent of North America. He has retold the stories, and, as he expresses it in his preface, "rounded them off from other sources of information," and he has, as we might expect from his previous work, made a most readable volume out of the material so treated. Nufiez and his Spaniards and de Ribault with his Frenchmen in Florida, Father Isaac Jaques in Canada, the English in New England and in Arctic regions, and experiences in the "Underground Railroad" while slavery still lasted, are among the subjects with which Mr. Hope deals. He has by no means exhausted his theme, for is not Cortes left ? Meanwhile there is plenty here to entertain the reader.
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