25 JANUARY 1868, Page 19

Glimpses of Abyssinia : Extracts from Letters by the late

Major Douglas C. Graham. Edited by his sister Anna, Lady Erskine. (Longman.)—In the years 1841, 1842, and 1843 Major Graham, of the Bombay Army, was sent on a mission to the King of Abyssinia. His experiences on that mission were told in pleasant, unaffected, unlabonred letters. We need not say that these letters would not have been pub- lished but for the present expedition, and a book which needs an expedition to justify it stands in no need of criticism. In any case the criticism would not be unfavourable.