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adjunct to this paper is supplied in two sketches, one 
of Roraima, the other of Kukenaam, and in a map of 
the district. 
A very different publication of local interest is a book 
of " West Indian Illustrations of Shakespeare" (JAMES 
THOMSON, Demerara, and JOHN Haddon & Co., Lon 
don), in which a well-known official of the colony has 
published a set of his sketches of negro-life, and has 
fitted these with more or less appropriate Shakespearian 
mottoes. While it must be admitted — indeed the artist 
himself would be the first to admit — that the drawing is 
often very defective, it should I think not be lost sight 
of that these sketches are valuable not only as affording 
dwellers in the West Indies, who know negroes, many 
a hearty laugh, but also as being well adapted to afford 
those at home, whose ideas of West Indian negroes are of 
the vaguest, a true picture, hardly touched by caricature, 
of these important members of the population of the West 
Indies. The difficulty will be to persuade those at home 
of the truth that these drawings are not caricatures. 
Another local publication requiring to be mentioned 
here, is the "Catalogue of the Exhibits sent from British 
Guiana to the Edinburgh International Exhibition," 
issued by the Exhibition Committee. It contains beside 
a descriptive list of the woods, barks, seeds, and other 
articles sent on exhibition, a long introductory chapter, 
in which, with other useful information, are given ex- 
tracts from Mr. HUNTER'S (Royal Pimlico Dispensary) 
report on practical experiments made by him at the 
instigation of Baroness Burdett-Coutts on medicinal 
barks sent from this colony to the London International 
Exhibition of 1862. 
