Adventures in the Great Forests. By G. W. F. Hyrst.
(Seeley and Co. 6s.)—These "adventures " are within the period 1760- 1860. So they do not include one of the most remarkable that ever happened to travellers,—Stanley's coming across the Pygmies in the dreary African forest, the strangest of creatures in the most dismal of dwelling-places. But the reader, if he misses this or that incident of travel, will find so great an abundance that he must be exigeant indeed if he is not satisfied. He is taken to Surinam, to Australia, to South Africa, to New Zealand,—one hardly realises that there are forests there which may be reckoned among the great woods of the world. Now and then he will have some literary association revived, as when he reads about "the forest of Evangeline," the woodland of Acadia. Nor is there any lack of heroic figures. Altogether, this is a fascinating book.
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