6 DECEMBER 1890, Page 40

A Scamper through sense Cities of America. By Archibald Porteous.

(D. Bryce and Sons, Glasgow.)—This little sketch of a three- months' tour gives a good idea of the impressions which the average fairly observant and sensible Britisher might receive during his travels in America. It is mostly devoted to the aspects of the big cities which the writer visited; but there are plenty of pertinent remarks about social and political life, and the whole is brightly written. We have heard it all before, but facts differently treated sometimes go home to different people better, and readers will always be found for works of this de- scriptive nature.