A Voyage round Great Britain. By Captain Thomas Hargreaves. (Sampson
Low and Co.)—It is probable that not many people, not being obliged to do so, have ever started in a sailing-vessel from Liverpool, and sailed round Great Britain till they came to Liverpool again. We do not remember reading any account of such a voyage. Captain Hargreaves deserves so much credit for originality. His book does not contain much else that is new ; but it is a suggestion of a pleasant and economical way of spending a holiday, if only one is safe from sea-sickness, and can find as agreeable a captain as the gentleman who commanded the Dairymaid.' We may note, by the way, that Captain Hargreaves seems a little "mixed " about his geo- graphy of the Hebrides. " At 8 0," he writes, " we bad a good view of the isles of Rum and Barra on our starboard, and Lewis on our port." Now, Barra is the southernmost of the Outer Hebrides (not to speak of some islets), and forty miles due west of Rum, whereas Lewis is nearly ninety miles due north of Rum, and north-east of Barra. The Outer Hebrides are sometimes called " The Long Islands," but the term "Lewis Islands" is misleading.
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