180 Recent Literature. [February 
and hunting on the plains, seeking for gold in the cafions, bear 
hunting and exploring on the mountains, and glimpses of Indiat 
and of military life at reservations and army posts. The sketches 
are true to life, and are.much better reading for youth than the 
ordinary hunting romances which are written by the successors 
of Captain Mayne Reid, The illustrations are capital, particl 
larly those engraved on wood. The accompanying engraving of 
pronghorns killing a rattlesnake by jumping upon it, is a faire 
ample of the illustrations. The author refers to it without, how 
ever, describing the incident. Particularly good also are the 
sketches entitled “shooting the bighorns,”’ that representing @ 
fight between an elk and a buffalo, and another depicting the 
tragic result; the full-page illustration of a group of mule deet | 
is good, while all the illustrations, as well as the press-wofk, 
are excellent. Mr. Ingersoll is an ornithologist, and scatters 
through the book sketches of his feathered friends. 
Frower's Fasuion 1N Derormty'—That some of the fashion 
of the highest civilization of the present day are dependent ot- 
grave deformities of the body, almost goes without saying. | The 
hideous fact is only relieved by the knowledge that most if not 
all savage and barbarous peoples have their fashions, which at 
only more exacting and unaccountable than those of the ure 
pean races. The wearing of earrings has descended to us 
our savage ancestors. The bandaging and strange deform 
highest civilization and for the feminine leaders of soci 
refer to the wearing of tight corsets. Tie effects of this 
are too well known, but a glance at Harper's Bazar for > 
ber, teaches us that tight-lacing was never more dema 
fashion than now. The admirable and judicious little 
ee REN ish of ladies and the symmetrically P“ 
hoes of men of fashion, “ we are opposing our judg 
of the Maker of our bodies; we Rs map ed the cri 
