Our Stolen Summer. By Mary Stuart Boyd. Illustrated by A.
S. Boyd. (W. Blackwood and Sons. 18s.)—The writer, by help of a ready pen and of the pencil of a skilful illustrator, has given us in this handsome volume a number of attractive pictures of distant places. Marseilles, Naples, and Colombo are successively sketched. Chap. 8 brings us to New Zealand ; to this country about a third of the volume is given. This portion of the book is followed by the story of voyaging among the Pacific islands. By a not very agreeable coinci- dence our travellers reached Samoa when the civil war between the rival Kings was going on. They were spectators of some of the fighting, and were not altogether outside the perils to which spectators of such scenes are liable. The homeward journey was by way of San Francisco, Chicago, and New York. This is a book which does not call for criticism. It is good to read and pleasant to look at. More was not aimed at, nor, indeed, when all paths are so well trodden, could more have been attained.
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