9 JUNE 1894, Page 26

Steve Brown's Bunyip. By John Arthur Barry. (Remington and Co.)—These

stories and sketches, from various parts of Asia and Australasia, are decidedly striking and effective. We may presume that they have been somewhat idealised—" Far Inland Football," for instance, must have been just a little coloured— but they aie doubtless true to fact in the main. If so, the back settlements of Australia present not a few instances of striking similarity to what we have been wont to read of the Far West of the United States.