Impressions of a Tenderfoot. By Mrs. Algernon St. Maur. (John
Murray.)—Mrs. St. Maur and her party left Liverpool on May 3rd, by a Canadian steamer, and returned to England aid New York, at the end of the year. They went, says the author in the preface, "in search of health, sport, and pleasure," and found, on the whole, more of all three than they expected. Their route took them first to the North.Weet of Canada, and thence across the Rockies to British Columbia, where they spent most of their time. Of the sport that they had, the fishing SOOE13 to have been the most successful. A. trout of 28 lb., caught in Minnewonka Lake (between Calgary and Banff, and therefore on the eastern side of the Rockies), was almost worth the journey. The narrative is pleasant and instructive, and tells us much about the places visited and the people seen. Even those who have road before on this subject will find something new. Hints they will certainly find. One we may repeat for the benefit of lady-travellers : "Don't take a maid." Mrs. St. Maur found hers of no use on the sea- voyage, either going or returning, and she left her with a relative during the whole of her stay in Canada.
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