17 AUGUST 1889, Page 24

Yankee Girls in Zululand. By Louise Vesceline Sheldon. (Trabner and

Co.)—The term "Zululand," as it is used in this volume, must be understood with considerable latitude. It in- cludes a considerable portion of Cape Colony. and the Orange Free State. The writer, with two companions, after six months of fog in England, went for a change to South Africa, and in this volume gives us some pleasant and lively impressions of her life there. She tells us about South African travelling, about diamonds, and ostriches, and the Boers (by whom she does not seem to have been greatly impressed), and other " men and things " in the country. There are some good sketches, which materially help to illustrate the book.