The Farbe Islands. By J. Russe]l-Jeaffreson. (Sampson Low and Co.
7s. 6d.)—Mr. Russell-Jeaffreson has travelled much in Northern regions,—Iceland, Greenland, Spitzbergen, &c., and now has added the Faroe Islands to his list of acquaintances. It takes some time to reach them, twice as long as to get to a Norwegian port, but the time is not ill spent. They are not hackneyed or spoilt. The people are simple and hospitable ; and there is abundance of sport, especially in angling, whether in salt water or fresh. The trout-fishing especially, as described in these pages, is enough to make an angler confined to overfished streams wild with envy. With a Berthon collapsible boat almost anything might be done, and, for the present, there is no sign of the place being overrun. It is worth mentioning, too, that the houses are clean, and the fare, though limited as to variety, good.
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