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BUFFALO BILL'S LIFE.

The autobiography of William F. Cody, better known as "Buffalo Bill," which has just been published by Frank E. Bliss, of Hartford, Connectiut, is the interesting story of a phase of life in out Western country which will soon belong to the past. The down-at-the-heels Bohemians who sit in the fourth story of Amity street lodging houses in New York and write florid romances of hte border have for years had the monopoly in this branch of literature, and while the fact that they knew nothing about the life they described may have detracted to some extent from the historical value of their productions, still the ingenuous youth of te land did not let its interest in these narratives of the imagination flag by reason of such a trifling defect. Mr. Cody's life is one which deals with very much the same sort of material, but it deals with it in a different way. The experiences he tells were gained on midnight scouts, on long trips across the plains in the old days of wagontrains, when emigration was a warfare, and the pioneers were cool, steady-nerved men, with quick eyes and quicker rifles. It is a plain, simple story which needs no flamboyat adjectives and glowing descriptions to add to its dramatic strength, for as it unfolds it is fressh with the free winds of the prairie and intense with the rush and vigor of the scenes it describes.

Cody is the Kit Carson of the Central Western border. Born in Nebraska, his parents moved to Kansas during the bloody days of the free-soil struggle, and his earliest recollections are of Missouri jayhawkers, who were trailing his father because of his anti-slavery opinions. When twelve years of age he made his first trip across the plains as a cavallard rider, and while