The New Far West and the Old Far Bast. By
W. H. Barneby. (Stanford.)—Mr. Barneby seems to be an old traveller, but he has nothing very original to relate about Manitoba, British Columbia, Japan, and Ceylon, which were the principal places visited by him in a recent tour round the world, "a distance of about 25,000 miles," as he is kind enough to tell us more than once. The most solid parts of his book are devoted to descriptions of farming operations in Manitoba and advice to intending emigrants. He thinks the country is "admirably adapted for the sons of our yeomen-farmers and labourers," but does not "consider the prairie-farmer's a suitable life for our young gentlemen," who, it seems, are only likely "to affect the ordinary emigrant in dress and manners," or even to marry some half- breed lady, thus dooming themselves "for ever to exile from the Old Country." He advises these "young gentlemen" to take some of the many vacant farms at home, rather than to go to distant Colonies in search of a laborious livelihood.
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