Round the World in Six Months. By Lieutenant-Colonel E. S.
Bridges, Grenadier Guards. (thirst and Blackett.)—The author explains, in a preface of a few words, that the number of inquiries received from friends and acquaintances about his journey has induced him to publish the diary which he kept, with a few additional notes, in the hope that it may be useful to future travellers. Looked upon in this light, the volume before us is an agreeable, chatty kind of guide-book-, containing some useful hints for any one who can afford to spend six months and six or seven hundred pounds in doing the tour of the world by the most frequented routes, —either starting from Liverpool, and passing through New York, San Francisco, Japan, India, and Egypt, back to Southampton, as our author did, or reversing the _journey. The book, however, is of an inconvenient size and binding for a guide-book, and the author is not always accurate, as may be seen from his speaking of the journey from Kalka to Simla being performed either in a mountain carriage "or on a saddle-pony called a jhampan," whereas a janspan, as most people know, is a chair carried by bearers, like a palanquin.
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