Round the World with the Union Jack. With many Illustrations.
(Religious Tract Society.)—This little book contains a series of interesting sketches of the history of the principal British posses- sions,—Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, India, British Burmah, the Malay Peninsula and Borneo, New Guinea, Hong-Kong, Australia and New Zealand, British North America, Central America and the West Indies, and the Cape of Good Hope, showing how each of them fell under the influence of Britain. The book is freely illus- trated, and is very suitable for school-prizes, being written with the laudable object of inspiring the young with a patriotic sense of the greatness and responsibilities of the British Empire ; a feeling in which too many persons are lamentably deficient at the present day. The question of missionary effort, though alluded to in the preface, is not allowed to become obtrusively prominent in the book.
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