A GLIMPSE OF THE TROPICS.
A Glimpse of the Tropics. By E. A. Hastings Joy. (Sampson Low, larston, and Co. 6s.)—The beat that can be said of this pleasant book is that it does not pretend to be more than what it is,—a simple account of a four months' cruise in the West Indies. Mr. Joy has not much, if anything, that is really fresh to say of St. Lucia or Martinique, Hayti or Jamaica, although he devotes three chapters to the last, and assures us that "signs of new activity are already apparent, and an influx of new blood, and more especially of capital, is now alone wanted to restore Jamaica to its proper position in the Empire." But he is a faithful chronicler of every event that happened to him in the course of his cruise, from the scene of bustle at Waterloo Station on the morning he left for Southampton to the hospitality he received at the hands of Mr. H-- in Barbadoes and of Mr. C— in Jamaica and the constituents of a West Indian cocktail "which is an excellent pick-me-up to an enervated West Indian constitution, but is apt to rob the unwary stranger of some of that judgment and reserve which he usually possesses." This book will also be found both interesting and useful for the information, heightened by excellent photographic illustrations, which it supplies as to the physical features, flora, and fauna of the islands visited by its author.
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