The Life of an Elephant. By the Author of "The
Life of a Bear." (Seeleys.)---We have loft this book long unnoticed, not from our own neglect, but from the fact that it was laid hold of by young folk, who liked it so much that it was never• at hand when it was wanted. Tamil, the hero of the story, is born in Ceylon, and after rising to be the loader of his herd, is captured, sent to the mainland, and thence to Siam, where he becomes first a state and then a war elephant. His final stage is that of a "rogue," in which character he traverses the length of India, and dies most pathetically in the land of his birth, where he has found- all things changed and new. The details are carefully studied, and the story is capitally told. The illustrations also are plentiful and good. But is it a fact, we venture to ask, that the Ceylon elephants have suck large tusks as Tamil and his compeers seem to have had ?
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