Letters from a Young Emigrant in Manitoba. (Kegan Paul, Trench,
and Co.)—The gist of this book is to be found in the few words which are appended by the editor to the last of the letters. The writer of them went out at eighteen, and "he has been able, within two years, to establish himself in a farm of about seven hundred acres, his own property, and a fair proportion of it already under cultivation ; he has his house, two teams of horses, cows, pigs, &a., eight stacks of corn, and fifty tons of hay, besides his ploughs, reaping and binding machine." What these two years were, what difficalties intervened and were overcome, and how, generally, the result was obtained, may be learnt from the letters themselves. But one thing may be men- tioned, by way of encouragement, for, of course, all is not plain- sailing, that the writer's friends at home, as they read his letters, were most struck with the kindness which he received from all whom he met.
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