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LAMURIAC. By Lady Cromer. (Methuen. 7s. (id.)— This is a

quiet and delightful book which will appeal to a varied public. It is a far cry from an old English garden— described with rare charm and humanity—to India, East Africa and Jerusalem, but so skilful is Lady Cromer's touch that she opens the gates of the East for us and we are able to cross the gulf easily and share her leisurely peregrinations. The life in Kenya is particularly well described, for Lady Cromer misses very little of real interest, but we are even more fascinated by "Jewelled Flowers " and " The Coming of the Rains "—prose-poems which are the triumph of sim- plicity. It is this quality in her writing which makes us hope that Lady Cromer will give us before long another volume of her impressions.