SUMMER in America, with its summer-camps, its fishing-parties in the backwoods, its
' hikes ' and family treks half across the Continent in a ramshackle arc, is a time full of interest for the foreign observer. Mr. S. K. Ratcliffe , who is an English journalist of distinction, has been for some years one of the most popular of lecturers in the United States, and he is well qualified to describe the American manners and modes.