Mr. Thompson left New York for Chicago on October 14th, 1891, and returned to that city on May 18th in the following year. This handsome volume records by pen and pencil what he saw and thought of lands, seas, men, and cities during that time. He began by going across the Continent to Victoria, British Columbia ; went thence to Vancouver, and from Vancouver sailed to Japan. Japan seems to have exercised on him its customary fascination. China did not please him as much. (Why, we may ask, the very hideous picture of "After the Execution" ?).
India occupied, of course, some time, including the stay in Ceylon (where he saw Arabi Pasha), more than a fifth of the time given to the whole of his globe-trotting ; Egypt, Pales- tine, and Europe followed, with ten days in this country. There is nothing remarkable about Mr. Thompson's experiences and opinions; but the volume in which he has recorded them is excel- lently got up. (We believe that the statement on p. 136 about the behaviour of the Indian rebels to their prisoners is not correct.)
The Spectator, 02.06.1894
