15 OCTOBER 1927, Page 19

The only excuse for a re-description of a well-trodden path

is lively narrative and some freshness of view, but in Miss Chown's Wayfaring in Africa (Cranton, 10s. 6d., illustrated), which narrates a woinan's wanderings from the Cape to Cairo, we get neither. Moreover the crop of inaccuracies in the book is unusually large even for the casual tourist.