28 FEBRUARY 1863, page 21

The Tropical World.* This Is Really A Very Charming Book,

and it would be difficult, we think, without reading it, to form any idea of the truly im- mense variety of fascinatinginformation which can be compressed * The Tropical World.......

Fergusson's Modern Architecture.*

THE work before us was originally intended by the author to form the third and concluding volume of his admirable Hand- book of Architecture," published some eight years ago.......