relates is of course far less general and intense, but where, we may
hope, the appreciation of heroic energy and noble achievements is not
less common. The book is not to be confounded with the class to which
the lives of governor-generals and military commanders in India belong.
Arrian complained that the expedition of the Ten Thousand was far more
famous in his day than the exploits of Alexander; and this narrative of
what must be considered an episode of the British rule in India is
likely to hold the attention of most readers more closely than many
volumes that recount the grander events of that wonderful history.

Walks in London. By Augustus J.C. Hare, author of "Walks in Rome," etc.
New York: George Routledge & Sons.

Not many visitors to London would be likely to take all or half the
walks described in Mr. Hare's two thick volumes, even if the word
_walks_ should be so interpreted as to include commoner modes of transit
between distant points of interest and through interminable
thoroughfares. In Rome or Venice the tourist may be expected to follow
religiously the prescriptions of his guide-book: he is there for that
purpose, he has no other means of employing his time, and he would be
ashamed to report that he had omitted to see or do anything that Jones
or Smith had seen and done. But a few rapid excursions in a hansom cab
will enable him to visit all the "sights" that are _de rigueur_ in
London--Westminster Abbey and Hall and the Houses of Parliament; the
Museum, the Zoological and the National Gallery; St. Paul's, Guildhall
and the Bank and Exchange; the Monument, the Tower and the
Tunnel,--after which he may devote himself without scruple to an endless
round of social amusements, or to "the proper study of mankind" with all
varieties and countless specimens of the genus collected for his
inspection. It is only the zealous investigator, primed with the
associations of English literature from Chaucer to Dickens, who will be
apt to put himself under Mr. Hare's guidance, and to explore patiently
the widely-separated districts in which lie scattered and almost hidden
the relics that attest the identity of London through the ages of growth
and change that have transformed it from the "Hill Fortress" of Lud or
the Colonia Augusta of the Romans into the commercial metropolis of the
world, with a population, circumference and aggregate of wealth
exceeding those of most of the other European capitals combined. Yet