12 DECEMBER 1908, Page 26

The Ghost Kings. By H. Rider Haggard. (Cassell and Co.

6s.) —This story of Zululand and its borders is full of Mr. Rider Haggard's usual mysteries and adventures. The magic sayings of Rachel Dove, the "Inkosazana" of the story, are, however, more or less explained by natural means. This does not quite. apply to the scenes at the end, which concern the "Ghost Kings" of the title and a strange lady called "The Mother of the Trees." Mr. Rider Haggard's works of fiction fall under two categories, which he names romances and novels. His present work belongs to the category of "romances," and is as fall of exciting adven- tures and pictures of native life in Zululand as the most exacting of his readers can demand.