1 APRIL 1922, Page 22

Among the Hill-Folk of Algeria. By IL W. Hilton-Simpson. (T.

Fisher Unwin. 21s. net.)—This well-written and attractive book is devoted to the Berber tribe known as the Shawia, who have inhabited the Awes Mountains in Southern Algeria from time immemorial. So remote are they from modern civilization that Shawia women living in the hills fifty miles from Biskra hailed Mrs. Hilton-Simpson as the first white woman whom they had ever seen. The Shawia have adopted Islam but they hold themselves aloof from the Arabs of the plain. The author gives an instruotive account of their dress and customs and devotes special attention to the primitive methods of the Shawia surgeons. The book is well illustrated.