Prairie and Bush. By George Dunderdale. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The
author of Prairie and Bash does not believe in plots, so he gives us his adventures in a rambling description of life in. a Lisbon College, life in a settlement in Illinois, and life in the Australian diggings. It is all very interesting and lifelike5 especially the sojourn in the Illinois colony, and the incon- sequential way the hero has of going on and on in the true "happy- go-lucky "style of ne'er-do-weels. The tale of reminiscences ends more abruptly even than it begins, leaving the impression of being a true and characteristic account of the vicissitudes of a wanderer's life in America and Australia, and the aspect of things in an American village and as the Australian digger saw them in the "sixties." It is fairly well written, and readable because evidently truthful.
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