New Life in New Lands. By Grace Greenwood. (Sampson Low
and Co.)—Miss Greenwood writes her "notes of travel," as she calls them, with some shrewdness, liveliness, and humour. She begins her journeyings in Chicago—Chicago, that is, as yet unburnt—and travels through Colorado, Utah, Nevada, California, and so home again. She seems to have been much pleased with what she saw, as doubtless she saw it under the most favourable auspices. "Utah charmed her especially, and she has a good word for Brigham Young, in whom she discerns "less fanaticism than fatalism,—that magnificent conceit of imperial and magnetic natures, of all moulders of systems and masters and leaders of men." Of the Mormon women she thinks that they do not look positively unhappy, but rather have in their faces "a quiet, battling, negative, and abnegative expression, which certainly is as far from happy content as it is from desperate rebellion." They show, it is said, little pride in their lords, not much to our author's astonishment, who think that it is perhaps "difficult to feel much pride in the six- teenth part of a man, as men go." The men, she thinks, look very jolly under the "cross," that being the accepted phrase for the institu- tion of polygamy ; and she adds, with a humour that recalls Artomus
I Ward, "Virgil, I believe, has somewhere the expression, '0 three times and four times happy !' Well, that is the way they look." As we happen to have spoken of a quotation, let us take the opportunity of telling Mies Greenwood that Mr. Tennyson never wrote and might possibly object to the lines,—
" Silent on a peak in Darien He stared at the Pacific."
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