How I Spent My Twentieth Year : being a Short
Record of a Tour Round the World, 1886-87. By the Marchioness of Stafford. (Blackwood and Sons.)—Lady Stafford says that in writing this journal she had no intention whatever that her notes should be read by the public ; and that this was the case is obvious from the occasional references in the volume to family matters, and from a number of slight details, very interesting probably to those who know the writer, but of little attraction to that unsympathising being, the general reader. The journal is written in a simple, and, indeed, negligent style ; but the entire freedom from effort, the girl-like expression of enjoyment, and the sound sense and good feeling of the writer, make the book a pleasant one to read. Lady Stafford is greatly interested in mission work and in the condition of women in India, and on these and kindred subjects writes with thought as well as sympathy. The author's clever and occasionally humorous illustrations are of service to the letterpress.
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