Seeing the World. By Ascott R. Hope. (Wells Gardner, Darton,
and Co. 5s.)—The young mountaineer whose adventures are told in this story is a Tyrolese. First we see him as a farm boy in his native place, and accompany him on an exciting search for a vulture's nest. A quarrel with his employer sends him to seek his fortune elsewhere ; and he has a variety of experiences, grave and gay, which Mr. Ascott Hope relates for us with his accustomed skill. We do not know that any of them is better than the day of his wanderings in London. He has by this time been enlisted in the service of an Austrian Archduke with whom he had been brought in contact at home. Nothing could be better than the way in which the agony, so to speak, is prolonged—he had gone out of the hotel in the morning without learning its name—and the happily contrived termination. Altogether, this is one of the most attractive stories of the season, and it is not a little set off by Mr. Gordon Browne's illustrations.
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