South African Snapshots for English Girls. By Eleanor Tyrrell. (Gay
and Hanceek. 3s. 6d.)—Miss Tyrrell, after nearly fifty years' experience of life in South Africa, thinks that it is the best country for young Englishwomen, and Miss Mary Hervey, who has presided for some years over the Education Committee of the South African Colonisation Society, expresses her agreement. Here are some of Miss Tyrrell's experiences, grave and gay. They have to do with travel, with work, with holiday. We can read about the troubles and the drawbacks, about the natives, something also about the history of the country ; in short, about many things which it is useful to know. Any girl who may think of going out should read the book,—there is an important chapter which she would repent of missing. And any girl who does not know what to do with herself—a very numerous class, we imagine—should certainly consult it. Life for a woman is not exactly easy in South Africa, but it seems to be easier than in Canada, at least in those parts of Canada to which emigration is most frequent.
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