Transito 1. a Story of Brazil. By Mrs. Emma E.
Hornibrook. (S. W. Partridge and Co.)—Spanish eyes, Brazilian landscapes, and a romantic courtship give an almost worldly piquancy to this book. But it is a religious story all the same ; we might oven say that it is a theological story, seeing that Protestantism and Roman Catholicism figure in it, and in opposition to each other. The plot of Transit° is quite original. Mr. and Mrs. Latrobe, a childless English couple, adopt a foundling Spanish girl, whose mother has had to abandon her
in sorrow, and whose father, a Spanish revolutionary, dies suspected of having murdered his father-in-law. They emigrate to Brazil. where Mr. Latrobe's brother, Walter Leonard, is already settled. Thera young Leonard falls in lore with his quasi-cousin, and they marry, after a religious difficulty which separates them has been got over, and after the real murderer of Transito's grandfather has appeared on the scene and confessed his crime. There is a variety of stirring incidents in the story, such as a Gaucho-hunt and a prairie- fire. Of the various characters that figure in it, Ignacio, the benig- nant Padre of the Pampas, and Joao the Tropeiro (whose histories, we learn, aro based on missionary records), stand out prominently from being very skilfully delineated. Transito is in every respect a most enjoyable book, and does its author the highest credit.
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