7 NOVEMBER 1896, Page 10

Captain Flinders ; or, How We Have Australia. By Robert

Thynne. (J. Hogg.)—Mr. Thynne has followed with praiseworthy care the story of Captain Flinders's "Explorations and Adven- tures." But he has not produced, we feel bound to say, a very interesting book. The Frenchmen who behaved so badly to the explorer are really as tiresome to us as they were to him.