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youth, his reminiscences of Canadian life and Papineau's rising are

really interesting, for they refer to a period which can be recollected by only a few. He seems to have enjoyed his term of service in Canada with bunting, sleighing, and all sorts of ex- peditions, and the narrative of it is brightly told, with some good stories and a fair smattering of his own personality to enable us to realise how well Sir Daniel got on with himself and everybody else. Some West Indian experiences and his return to England bring the author's career to within a year or two of his "Crimean Letters," which were published lately. If we omit the first quarter of the volume, these "Early Reminiscences" of General Lysons are decidedly worth reading.