much less, as she reached Bogota, her place of residence,
on Septem- ber 23rd, and left it again on June 15th. For this reason, probably, she shortens her narrative, and gives seventy-three pages out of a total of two hundred and seventy to her journey out, and fifty to her journey back. We do not know that there is any particular reason to complain of this, except that the voyage from Southampton to the South-American coast has been described quite often enough. The pictures of scenery and life are fresher, and make the book sufficiently readable. The grammar admits of being improved. Some one, we read, "sent we two Sefloras some melon and claret ;" and there is a tendency to use a familiar kind of false antithesis- Why should it be said of a man described as "very intelligent, that although buried, as it were, alive in a certain place," "he is anxious to know the news, and very glad to receive a newspaper ?" What more natural ?
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