Adventures on the Great Rivers. By Richard Stead. (Seeley and
Co. 5s.)—The sporting vies with the exploring element in these varied and exciting chapters, though on the whole the more serious side predominates. The variety attending river travel will make this book moat attractive to boys, for though a river can be tedious, a desert is always monotonous. Moreover, a tiVer traveller has one great advantage; he is amphibious. As it is, we range front Pole to Pole, front the Yukon to the Irrawaddy, and every imaginable predicament that the hardihood of adventurous spirits can desire is herein described. One is surprised at not finding the passage of the Grand Carlon of the Colorado given a place. Not only is the Grand Cafion unique, but for a hundred who may voyage on a great river not one will make that wonderful journey through the crust of the earth. However, boy readers will find a kaleidoscope of brilliant and picturesque scetes from all lands collected for their benefit by Mr. Stead. And from all of theta they will learn some healthy lessons which, We think, the author has striven to inculcate,—the value of coolness and steadiness, tact and patience ; and that, at books should educate as well as recreate, is one of the good points of these twenty-nine stories of adventure and exploration.
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