19 MARCH 1927, Page 48

ON THE EDGE OF THE EAST. By F. Horace Rose.

(Methuen. 6s.)—This is an interesting .and breeiy account of an eight thousand mile voyage around the coast of Africa, touching on Portuguese East Africa; Arabia, Egypt, Italy; France, and Malta. Mr. Rose has gifts, not only of obserVation, but of reflection ; and description is relieved by pleasant sketches of life aboard ship and byinterludes of quiet, good- humoured philosophy that reveal in the writer some of the qualities of an " intimate " essayist.