SOURCE: A review of Episodes in a Life of Adventure, in The Athenaeum, Vol. 2, No. 3117, July 23, 1887, pp. 107-08.

In the following review from The Athenaeum, the unsigned critic describes Oliphant's travels in the decade following the Crimean War, which Oliphant chronicles in Episodes in a Life of Adventure.

Mr. Oliphant has collected the charming autobiographical sketches which have recently appeared in Blackwood under the title 'Moss from a Rolling Stone,' and published them, with certain additions, as Episodes in a Life of Adventure. Few men have had such varied experience of life in the Old World and the New; and we know of no other "rolling stone" that possesses at once the faculty of gathering the finest of moss, and the power of describing the specimens collected in bright and attractive language.

The author declares that the period of his life under review appears to him now...