Murray's "Monthly Review" opens with a remarkably well-written and amusing satire with the above title, due, it is to be understood, to the fertile bram of the Editor of the "Review," Mr. Henry Newbolt. Mr. Gulliver begins by explaining that finding after his return home that the detestable qualities of the Yahoos by whom he was surrounded were insxpportable, he set out on another voyage to Africa in the " Wide: ported by World," a stout merchantman of the taxes in great tonnage and repute. He was well provided with money, his business being to send home as many as he could of the cunard grunts which are found abundantly in that quarter of the world. Mr. Gulliver goes on to describe how the captain and crew turned against him, and at last determined to set him adrift, the ship having been blown out of her course, and being "in the Antipacific Ocean and not far from the Archi-pelage, of which the most considerable part is known to mariners by the name of the Internecine Islands." He was put into a boat with a month's rations of plasmon biscuit and for his drink a convenient supply of sparklets, and before long reached "the mouth of a large river, which as I conjectured and was afterwards assured, was the main port of entry to the capital island of the Acchipelago."
The Internceine Islands are seven in number and form but the smaller art of the whole Archipelago. 'The yest island is the most casterly one and is known as Slibearia, "though the inhabitants among themselves give it the title of 'Holy Land' for a reason which one of them explained to me, but which appeared too mystical to be understood by a Ewrocan intellect." West of 1s Franz-Josefland or Nubi "the people of which are internecine, being subdivided into six or-seven tribes of irreconcilable habit of mind." The next two islands are called Gottland aul Paparegia. Gottlind is a theocracy: "the siding deity is reported to be potent and omniscient; he is bes almost omnipresent and is yifted with miraculous activities.
In the common speech he is alluded to me Will' or ' Everlasting but in public worship he Iways addressed as 'War Lord' or High-high-high. The commerce this country is reckoned upon an {antiquated method, by a coin known as Grenadierenbeinen, inusein Pomerania. The p manufactures are statues of the national deity and Prussic acid. The larger part of the country is not and never has been cultivated; the inmost abundant. crop is a kind of wild tment mills and then ground into a oats which is dragged to the govern-
{coarse Hour called in their dialect <fist-mail. There is no external demand for this commodity: it is sometimes exported in small quantities to the Far East, but it is said to arrive in unsatisfactory condition."
The island of Paparegia is governed by two Kings, one black and one white, the population being similarly divided, "A singularity of this people is that the richer classes are wholly insolvent, and have for some Tyears past been charitably sup-the poor, who pay all addition to performing all the labour of the country." Westward of Paparegin lies the island of Boulevardia, - corresponding to the Elysium of antiquity. The people here have a kaleidoscopic arrangement by which they change their government every ten months. "They are pre-eminent for the severity of their morals, never exceeding the limit of two children in each family; and for the polish of their address, holding, as one of their great educators laid it down, that "manners are given us to conceal our thoughts.' Pertinent here is the opservation ofa Japanese traveller upon the common: r sort of Boulevardicr. videlicct, 'He very polite but inside quite different.'
Mr. Gulliver deters his descript-on of the sixth of these nds, and goes on to the seventh which is called Aquila, after an extremely bird erenms the inhabitants their omens. A tlisease is common there which makes the voice take on a metallic in the less favourable ca general swelling of the head, accompanied with a distortion of the jon, and an unnatural desire ty have all things of a monstrous bigness: the disease then reaches the sta w'led Pir pont Morbus, and is considered to be past curing. The fauna of th Land includes choates, vold bugs, mug:
s, suphomres, clams, and gre he principal import is white and the chief exports are stunts and housewives, both of excellent quality.
"These then are the seven unin islands ut the Archipelago, and I was first. move: l to nder by the diversity of their governments and their national characters. But upon further reflection T saw clearly that in both of these—respects they resemble one another more than they differ. For in all of them alike, though in ug degrees. hatred and distrust of foreigners the chief national characteris and perpetual war the fundamental principle of their politics, And since they display these qualities in a far greater degree than any of the smaller nations by whom they are surrounded, it is not without reason that they are distinguished by the name *Internecine, and that. their treated separately in In-{ternecine Congresses reling to a special cude of Internecine Law."
Tt will be seen that the 1 spirit of the great Dean Swift has been conscientiously adopted by his imitator. We hope that our readers from Slibearia and other islands will not be offended by what the modern Gulliver says of them: we can assure them that they will find that he does not spare his native }eountry when its turn comes.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.