The Man from Oshkosh. By John Hicks, LL.D. (Sampson Low,
Marston, and Co.)—Dr. Hicks has been Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States to Peru, and it is in the pictures that he
gives of South American life that there lies whatever strength his tale possesses. It is drawn out to a somewhat tedious length, and would have been distinctly improved by being shortened, say,
by a half. A Mr. Juniper is the hero of the story, and he goes through some startling adventures. A revolution is, of course,
one of them, for has it not been implied that the scene of the narrative is laid in a South American city ? More unusual, it is to be hoped, because distinctly more nnpleasing, was the being buried alive. Even this danger, however, Mr. Juniper contrived to escape, and we leave him married to his Celia. Let us hope that he did not live to regret having escaped the rifle-bullets of the Brothers Gutierrez, or even having been rescued from the tombs of the Lopez family, whither a too hasty diagnosis of a case of yellow fever had sent him.
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