21 SEPTEMBER 1872, page 20

Mr. Brassey, Contractor.* [first Notice.]

MA. HELPS has succeeded in what ought to be the object of every biographer,—not so much to tell us what the subject of his memoir did, or even thought, but, if he be worth a......

Java.* " I Was There, Such Things Befell Me," Are

the words from La Fontaine with which the Comte (now Marquis) de Beauvoir prefaces the wonderful story of his visit to Java, in 1866, an incident of his voyage round the world......