By Land and Ocean. By Fanny L. Raines. (Sampson Low
and Co.) —When we have quoted the second title of this volume, we have almost discharged our critical duty. It runs thus, "Or, the Journal and Letters of a Young Girl who went to South Australia with a Lady Friend, then ALONE to Victoria, New Zealand, Sydney, Singapore, China, Japan, and across the Continent of America, lime." We have looked through the book, and find that this description is quite correct, and have no reason to doubt that Miss Raines visited the places de- scribed. We suppose that there was no other way of proving to the world that the feat was accomplished except by publishing this volume. The reason is at least as good as that which serves for many publica- tions. Miss Raines writes easily and smoothly enough, though with some use of quite unliterary slang. As she does not place any undue estimate on the value of her observations, we may commend her book to such readers as may care to see how an exploit still, we cannot help saying happily rare, was achieved.
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