17 FEBRUARY 1894, Page 26

In Sugar - Cane Land. By Edward Philpotts. (McClure and Co.) —There

was no need for Mr. Philpotts to describe a journey which travellers innumerable have taken; and if he was impelled to do it, having written books before and finding himself with much time on his hands, he would have done better not to be funny. Now and then he forgets the necessity of being amusing, and so becomes readable. But reading In Sugar-Cane Land will not be found a very easy matter.