COLLEGE TRAMPS: A Narrative of the Adventures of a Party of Yale Students during a Summer Vacation in Europe. By Frederick A. Stokes (Class of '79). Profusely Illustrated. New York : G. W. Carleton & Co., 1880.

THIS book has already met with an enthusiastic reception at Yale, which is not at all surprising, as the students there probably enjoy the local references, and recognize the eight students whose adventures form the foundation of the work. The incidents are by no means new, but to the reader who has never seen the chief places in the Old World they may prove interesting. The eight begin their travels with a trip to the Harvard-Yale boat-race, where one of their young lady friends attributes the victory of the crimson to the fact that "those old veterans, Ernst and Tyng, have grown bald and gray rowing on the ball-crew." The party go in the steerage to Rotterdam, visit the Rhine, the Black Forest, Switzerland, and Venice, and catch a hurried glimpse of Paris on their return. The book is written in a literary style that disarms criticism, for the author states in his preface that without certain bits of slang the representation would have lacked an essential feature. The illustrations, especially those giving views of well-known places, are good; among the others we notice several by Dore, which have appeared in other works, we believe, and give additional value to this book.