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THIS book is written in a lively and amusing manner; but with rather too fixed a determination in the author, to be witty at all times. Its morality and its style are both loose, and the predominant tastes displayed are those of a bon vivant. It embraces the government side of the question, in regard to British colonial policy, and represents the slaves as well treated and contented. Some of the descriptions may be interesting to our readers. The following is the author's account of his arrival at Barbadoes, in company with an English bishop, who had gone out to minister in the West Indies.

I was present when the first protestant bishop arrived in the bay, and the landing was a spectacle which I shall not easily forget. The ships of war were dressed and their yards manned, and salutes fired; this was pretty and common; but such a sight as the Carenage presented very few have ever witnessed. On the quay, on the mole, on boats, on posts, on house tops, through doors and windows, wherever a human foot could stand, was one appalling mass of black faces. As the barge passed slowly along, the emotions of the multitude were absolutely tremendous; they threw up their arms and waved their handkerchiefs, they danced, and jumped, and rolled on the ground, they sung and screamed and shouted and roared, till the whole surface of the place seemed to be one huge grin of delight. Then they broke out into a thousand wild exclamations of joy and passionate congratulations, uttered

with such vehemence, that, new as it was then to me, it made me tremble; till I was somewhat restored by a chorus of negro girls,— "De Bissop is come; de Bissop is come! He is coming to marry us, coming to marry us, coming to marry us all!"

In regard to education in the islands, our author observes;

A great desideratum in the West Indies is a place of study and retirement for young men. As it is, those who cannot afford the heavy expense of going to Oxford or Cambridge, are obliged to break off the unfinished work of instruction, to set up at seventeen or eighteen for men, and undertake the charge of duties for which they are utterly unqualified. They come away from school half educated in heart and intellect, and are then for the most part placed in situations, where every temptation to licentiousness besets their path, and many dangerous privileges are of necessity committed to their discretionary exercise. With regard to the wants of the church, the deficiency is still more severely felt; the present plan of general improvement demands such a number of well informed youths as catechists or clergymen, as the islands under the actual system of things cannot supply; hence the necessity of bringing men from England, who are of course wholly unacquainted with the peculiar condition of the society in the midst of which they are to labour, or of employing in very difficult enterprises persons who at the best perhaps have nothing but their good intentions to recommend them. If the interval between seventeen and twenty-three is hazardous in this country, what must it be in the West Indies, where there exists no retreat from the seductions of awakening passion, no scope or aid for the developement of the higher and more latent powers of the human mind.

The following is a description of some remarkable features in West Indian vegetation, and of the nest of the corn-bird.

After breakfast we rode through the yet half-cultivated country in our way to the Indian Mission at Savana Grande. Nothing can be more wretched than the appearance of the land in the first process of clearing; fire is the principal agent, and the surface of the earth is obstructed with trunks and branches of trees black and ghastly with the conflagration. I am told that these trees are usually left to rot away, as the expense of drawing them off would be too heavy, besides that the soil is much enriched by the immense deposition of vegetable matter. But the still standing woods are magnificent. The most striking feature in their vegetation is the parasite race of plants... their variety, magnitude, and colours are astonishing. It is often difficult to distinguish the standard tree from the luxuriant weeds which interlace and enmesh its branches with their tendrils in an indissoluble union. Many of

these bear the most gorgeous flowers upon their bosoms of unfading green; the wild pine burns in the sun like a topaz rising out of a calix of emerald. From the topmost limbs of the giant fathers of the forest, such as the silk-cotton tree, bois Le Seur,* and various kinds of friguera, you see the creeper, like a cord, hanging down one hundred and fifty feet, another grows down parallel with the first, the wind twists them together into bell-ropes, as Ligon well puts it; others are successively united in this way, till at length the creeper, now a stout sapling, fixes itself in the ground, takes root, and like a graceful pillar supports the mighty architrave above. Fresh creepers again form a tracery round these and around the parent tree, and swell by accretion to such an enormous size, that they put me in mind of the huge and endless folds of the strangling serpents of the Laocoon.

But nothing pleased me so much as the corn-bird's nest. This bird, in order to lay her eggs in safety, and defeat those ingenious hidalgos the monkeys, weaves a kind of purse net, such as we see used in petty shops to contain balls of twine and other light articles. This she suspends by a twisted cord of creepers from the outermost limb of many of the great trees; at the bottom of the purse, which is the broadest part, lies the nest, and there she swings away backwards and forwards before the breeze in the prettiest manner imaginable. I believe she gets in at the bottom, but the extreme height prevented me from seeing the aperture. If a man were disposed to be fanciful, he would say that the Indians borrowed their chinchorro or hammock from the corn-bird's nest, though the bird has the advantage a thousand times over in airiness and motion.

Our readers will be amused with the account of a party of negroes, who had assembled to be baptized and married by the newly arrived bishop.

According to appointment, at nine the next morning, Mr Mitchell's house was surrounded by a noisy multitude of men, women, and children. Some came to be baptized, some to gossip, and some to be married. Many of the latter brought in their arms smiling arguments that the prayers of the church for fecundity would be superfluous. They all entered the house with perfect nonchalance, roamed about in every part of it, and laughed and gabbled in as unrestrained a manner as they would have done in their own huts. Mrs Mitchell's parlour, where I had slept, was constituted baptistery and altar. A white cloth was spread on the table, and a large glass vase, filled with pure water, was placed in

* "I do not pretend to spell this word correctly. I only caught it in conversation, and believe it is some man's name."

The oriole or sylvia pensilis of Buffon, I believe.