IN A GERMAN COLONY.
In a German Colony. By B. Pullen-Burry. (Methuen and Co. Ss. net.)—Miss Pullen-Burry, who has wandered over no small portion of the earth, thought that she should like to extend her travels to Now Britain, persisted in her resolve in spite of many prophecies of trouble and suffering, and gives us here the results, of her experiences and observations. Some of those were desirable ; such was her acquaintance with Bishop Copp6e, whom an Englishman will naturally compare with Bishop Selwyn, and with the enterprising "Queen Emma," who " runs " a very
prosperous business. The German officials, too, she found polite and helpful. But she did not carry away a very high idea of this special example of German colonial enterprise. "In the whole Archipelago there are to-day only, and never have been more than, three hundred white men, and out of that number a large proportion are officials." How far, we wonder, does the revenue of £5,000 go towards paying these gentlemen P They want, to judge from our author's remarks, no small sum for their beer. There is much that is interesting about the native races in Miss Pullen-Burry's narrative.
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