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Round the World: Sketches of Travel through Many Lands and

over Many Seas. By E. G. Prime, D.D. (Sampson Low and Co.)— Dr. Prime started on August 1, 1869, to do what is now "The Grand Tour; to go round the world, and accomplished it in somewhat less than a year. It can be done, it seems, in seventy-five days. Dr. Prime, however, was not in so great a hurry. 1Te spent two months in Japan -and China, and as much in India, and saw a good deal of Egypt and of the Holy Land. Among European countries. Italy, Germany, and Great Britain were visited. There is nothing very remarkable about the narrative of his tour, but it is pleas antly and sensibly written, and would not, we imagine, be a bad companion to anyone who was meditating the same journey. The writer's profession gives a certain tone to the book. We hear, for instance, more about missions than ordinary travellers toll us. In no other respect does it differ from what not a few observant and well-educated persons actually do write about their travels, and what a great many might write were they so minded. We quote an amusing specimen of "Pigeon English." It is a version of "My Name is Norval :"- "My name blong Norbal, topside that Glampian hillee

My fader, you sabee my fader, makee pay chow-chow he sheepoo. Beemallo heart.° man, too towhee take care that dolloo, Gola."

Now that Winchester " notions " seem likely to become obsolete, Pigeon English will certainly have the distinction of being the most absurd of dialects.