A Winter Cruise in Summer Seas. By Charles C. Atchison.
(Sampson Low, Marston, and Co.)—Mr. Atchison was compelled by failing health to take a holiday, and spent it—exactly two months in duration, he tells us—by journeying to South America. .His-reate-was Lisbon,' St. Vincent,' Pernambuco, 'Bahia, 'Rio de' Janeiro,-Buenos Ayres,-and- sundry other places in- the ,Argentine and Uruguay,- and-so-home. And this he -did, it is interesting to learn, at the cost of A100. 'It would have been possible to give us this informationewithina somewhat. /mailer-compass than a large octavo of- three hundred-and fifty pages. But books must be-of-a certain size, we imagine, to pay, and Mr. Atchison has a-go d -deal to say about himself, his fellow.passengers, and the -places he visited. If he could only have purged his humour of -a certain spice of profanity with -which he seeks, it would seem, to give a flavour to its his book would have been better than it ie. As itis, it becomes now and .then- very distinctly offensive to any one with a reverent mind. The photographic illustration& are interesting, and the sketches by Mr. Walter B. Buckley very good.
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