Julia and I in Canada. By the Author of Daphne
in the Fatherland. (Andrew Melrose. 6s.)—This is a most amusing little work, which tells of the initial struggles of two Englishwomen who set up house with a brother for a year in Montreal. Intending emigrants would do well to read it, for though no special hardships were undergone by the joint heroines of the story, conditions of life are obviously so different in Canadian and English towns that only disaster would be invited by women who went out unprepared. The word " women " is used advisedly. Men can live in lodgings or boarding-houses all the world over, but if women want a home of their own in Canada they have to make it and to do all the domestic work with their own hands. The account of the flats of Montreal, with their rickety outside staircases going up straight from the street, is curious. As fiction the story is not of much merit, but as a study of conditions in Canada it is most instructive.
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