New Colorado and the Santa Ed Trail. By A. A.
Hayes, Jun., M.A. (C. K. Paul and Co.)—This is a bright and pleasant book of travel. New Colorado is Colorado as it is to-day, for to-day iu the Wost is very different from yesterday. Memory has more than she can do to record its progress, and prophecy is altogether at fault. " I would not buy," said General W. T. Sherman, in 1865, as quoted by our author, "a ticket for San Francisco for my youngest grandson," and four years later ho bought one for himself. It is part of this wonderful country which Mr. Hayes describes, its mines, its farming, its splendid scenery, and; not the least attractive part of his book, the somewhat grim humours of its life and manners. If we are to mention any passages where all is good, we may refer our readers to the stories of the " road agents "—for.by this curious euphemism the humorous sons of the West describe those whom, while wo yet had them, we called, in prosaic fashion, "highwaymen "—and to the de- scription of crossing the Great Divide by the sources of the Arkansas. The book is admirably illustrated.
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