The Argentine through English Eyes. By J. A. Hammerton. (Hodder
and Stoughton. 12s. net.)--The discomforts of life in Buenos Ayres, a great city in a new and rich country where prices rule high, are vividly described in this book. The Argentine has passed. the revolutionary stage at which Mexico, Colombia, and the smaller Republics remain, but it has not yet developed the ordered civilization of Western Europe, and its millions of recent immigrants are not yet assimilated. From our standpoint, then, it has many faults, and Mr. Haminertmes very candid criticism is doubtless true enough. Yet the wonder is that the Argentine has done so well, in breaking with the evil traditions of the Spanish colonial rule and the anarchical habits of the period following its liberation. Mr. Hammerton is right in saying that the Argentine has been over-praised, but his own pessimism is somewhat excessive.
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