2 JUNE 1894, Page 28

Tom Sawyer Abroad. By Mark Twain. (Chatto and Windus.)— This

extravaganza is amusing, but not, in our judgment, so amusing, by a long way, as Tom Sawyer's adventures on the Mis- sissippi. He, with his faithful companion, who plays Pylades to his part of Orestes, and Jim, the "nigger," who had a good deal to do, it will be remembered, with the Mississippi adventures, voyage in a balloon, of the kind which can be steered—our author here anticipates a trifle—and finds his way to the Sahara, thence to Egypt, and we know not where else. But it is not worth while to say more. "Mark Twain" never fails to be readable.