Australian Life, Black and White. By Mrs. Campbell Freed. (Chapman
and Hall.)—Mrs. Campbell Praed has the pen of a ready writer ; and as she can describe well, and possesses an ample budget of characteristic stories, her pictures of Australian life are vivid and interesting. Most of her stories are amusing, some verge on low comedy, one or two are deeply tragical. But all are illustrative of life in the Bush, and so well told that they give us a better idea of what that life is than volumes of mere description. The book will be found entertaining by the general reader ; it may be recommended as well to those who want to know something of Australia without either going thither, or bemusing themselves with dry facts and wearisome statistics, as to those who contemplate making their per- manent home in our greatest Colony.
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