Ten Minutes' Talk on All Sorts of Subjects. By Elihu
Burritt. With an Autobiography of the Author. (Sampson Low and Co.)—The autobiography is, as might be expected, the best part of the volume. A man who has made of himself what Mr. Burritt has made has e story to tell which is worth listening to. The other essays aro always pleasant and good-humoured, and sometimes wise. Mr. Burritt has lived many years in England, and his sketches of English life and manners are those of a frendly observer. Even the monstrous licence of the Oxford Commemoration, now happily restrained with ii1 some limits of decency, does nothing more than excite his surprise. Of Mr. Barritt's political capacity we cannot think very highly. He has a curious paper to show that Russia has not done any harm to any one by her neighbourhood ; very fine talking for an American, protected by impassable distances, but not at all what the neighbours say, and they, after all, know best.
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