Their Wedding Tourney. By W. D. Howell. (Boston,17.S. : Osgood.
London: Trtibner.)—This is the description, full of quiet humour— there is in America a type of quiet humour not less marked than the extravagant kind of Artemus Ward and his fellows—of the wedding trip of a couple from Boston to Niagara, down the St. Lawrence, to Mon- treal and back. The book has not, and is not meant to have, any par- ticalarly brilliant passages; it moves on at about the same level of merit, always pleasant and readable, with little touches of graphic description and acute notice of character which prevent the reader from ever wearying, and make him really sorry when he comes to the end. The description of a hot day in New York is admirably true, as far as one can judge from what our climate gives us in London ; and even at Niagara Mr. Howell avoids affectation, exaggeration, and commonplace. It is a really delightful book, of which we would give a specimen, could we find one that did not exceed the space at our command. There are some capital books from which it is impossible to give extracts.
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