17 MAY 1873, page 24

The Islands Of The Western Pacific.*

BOOKS of travel in the South-Sea Islands have abounded of late in both English and French literature, and the beautiful, remote, savage, sunny isles are almost exhaustively......

Nugae Canorae ; Lays By The Poet-laureate Of The New

Town Dispensary. Second Edition. (Edmonston and Douglas.)—There is something melancholy about these records of by-gone jollities and laughters. The "Poet-Laureate of the New......

Current Literature.

The Portfolio. May. (Seeley.)—The frontispiece of the May number is a very attractive etching after M. Feyen-Perrin, entitled a "Sailor's Infancy." The general atmospheric......