SIX MONTHS IN AMERICA.
WE think that Mr. VIGNE could scarcely have employed his six months better than in the composition of this work. It is an amusing, gossiping book, written in a fair and honest spirit. Mr. VIGNE travelled with his eyes and heart open; and while he has seen and described most of the distinctions which exist between the old and the new country, has not set down these differences as crimes. In the course of six months, Mr. VIGNE wandered over a great extent of country, including parts of the Canadas ; and he presents us not only with a considerable variety of little incidents and anecdotes, which inform while they amuse, but gives us several general views, which, if not profound, are sensible. On the whole, his report of the United States is very favourable; while he ap- pears to have been as much struck as any previous traveller with the peculiarities of our Transatlantic descendants.
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