A WOMAN IN THE ROCKIES.
A Woman Tenderfoot. By Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson. (D. Nutt. 6s.)—Mrs. Seton-Thompson is of the opinion that, like the Quaker wife, her place should be with her husband; so when her husband departed for a hunting and sketching expedition in the Rocky Mountains, she forsook the usual summer resorts and accompanied him to the wilds. We have reason to be thankful for the decision, for the result is a charming book of travel-notes, illustrated amusingly with witty marginal sketches. The book begins with an excursus on the proper sort of clothes and outfit for a woman tenderfoot, and the conclusion is surprisingly inex- pensive. Thus equipped, the lady fords endless rivers, slays elk and antelope, stalks the grizzly, braves snowstorms, is pursued by Indians, becomes for a day a cowboy, and finally drives a four-in-hand team over a precipitous mountain,—adventures enough to satisfy most people for a lifetime. The tale is told with unfailing humour and high spirits, and a brave philosophy which laughs at discomfort. The account of the day spent alone in camp with a murderous cook, a "nice man, who confessed to many robberies and three murders," is a delightful piece of writing, and in a graver vein there is much power in the descrip- tion of the fight she saw between the two great bull elk in the cloud-cap. Scattered throughout there are little pictures of animal life drawn by one who is a true lover of wild things, and for surprising adventures excellently told the stories of the deer hunt and the flight of the Great Goer are to be commended. Mrs. Seton-Thompson has created a series of animals we shall not soon forget, and we entertain a sincere friendship for' Blondey,' and Mountain Billy,' the gentlemanly skunk, Johnny' the wood- chuck, and • Wahb ' the grizzly. The book is so fresh and high- spirited that we trust it will not be long before the author, tenderfoot no longer, makes another expedition to the mountains.
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