Don Agustin Edwards has played a distinguished part in Chilean
politics, and has represented his country very ably, both as Minister at various capitals and as delegate at Geneva, where he has presided over the Assembly of the League. Clearly, then, he is well qualified to write about Chile, and his imposing and attractive volume, My Native Land, fulfils expectations (Benn, 28s.). Chile, hemmed in between the Andes and the ocean, and broken up by lower ranges as well as by forests and deserts, is an extremely picturesque country, but all the more difficult to develop. Senor Edwards does
• justice to the scenery, and to the hardy and resolute people who have made the Republic prosperous. As he describes each province in turn, from Tacna down to Magellanes and Tierra del Fuego, he digresses to note the historical events
• which each important place recalls, and he does not forget the commercial adventures beside the battles.- He describes Juan Fernandez and Easter Island, and gives several chapters . to Chilean literature. Don Agustin has made Chile seem real to at least one reader, both by his text and by the many Clever drawings which he gives.
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