a pleasant and chatty style. It is not exactly elegant
or finished, and is evidently—too evidently—the result of amplified notes. Much is left unsaid that might well have been said, and the whole seems to want fullness. However, the accounts of Siam, Timar, the Sultan of johore, and Ceylon are interesting, and have plenty of Eastern colour about them. Occasionally Mrs. Caddy says a good thing,—for instance, the following "luminous reflection on the grandeur of the ocean," as she calls it :—
"Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! A thousand sweeps fleet over thee in vain."
Mrs. Caddy was also gratified with a view of the "sea-serpent." "The best authenticated ease I had hitherto known was the sea- serpent seen at Haulbowline, which turned out to be a long lawyer from Cork taking a swim." Even Dukes get some amusement out of travelling, so Mrs. Caddy says. The following is an instance :—Standing one day on the doorstep of his saloon- carriage, the Duke was accosted by a bagman : "Nice carriage this. Whose is it ?" "Mine," said his Grace. "Gammon !" The Italians, it seems, are not looking forward to the conquest of Abyssinia. Mrs. Caddy saw Captain Michelini, the sole survivor of the Dogali disaster. Michelini, after receiving seven wounds, crawled back to Massowah, a distance of twenty kibmetres, on his bands and knees, taking forty-eight hours ! The voyage of the • Sans Pear' is refreshing ; but we should not like to compare it with "The Voyage of the 'Sunbeam.'"
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