Lady Emmeline Stuart-Wortley and her daughter Victoria were the Wanderers
about whom Mrs. Cust writes (Cape, 12s. 6d.). They both had a passion for travel, though the little girl was not yet in her teens when in 1849 they set . out for New York. Victoria was amazingly old- forher age, and the material for the itinerary comes partly from her journal and partly from her mother's letters. Many small adventures and many amusing discomforts, such as must happen to those who rush about a country not yet supplied with luxurious means of travel, are detailed somewhat at length. Eager to see, and prone to admiration, Lady Emmeline wrote picturesque and charming descriptions of Mexican scenery and Spanish life and customs, but her forced gaiety and determination to take a mischance in good part and_" make a joke of it " become a little wearisome. After nearly six years of restless journeys she died in the Holy Land " on the wild and arduous road of northern Lebanon," leaving Victoria completely alone. We see the poor child sorrowful, terror-stricken and desolate, standing at the door of her tent watching the Syrian dawn.
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