In Morocco. By Edith Wharton. (Macmillan. 20s. net.)— Mrs. Wharton
in the last year of the war made a month's tour in Morocco under the care of the French administration. Sho saw much more than the ordinary traveller would see in a month, including the very remarkable sixteenth-century tombs of the Saadian Sultans, in an obscure mosque at Marrakesh, which were only revealed to the French in 1917. Her description of this hurried tour is vivid and entertaining. Whether Morocco will change so quickly as she seems to fear, when it is mado more accessible by a railway from Tangier, may be doubted. Mrs. Wharton pays a well-deserved tribute to the work of General Lyautcy, a Proconsul who may rival some of our best colonial governors. When the war broke out, General Lyautcy was ordered to send the bulk of his troops home and to hold only the coast towns. He cent the troops away, but instead of abandoning the interior, he occupied more territory with his slender forces. By his firmness and tact he succeeded in main- taining order, and in thwarting the desperate efforts of the Germans, working from the Spanish zone, to promote a wide- spread insurrection. General Lyautey's wonderful achievement should be better known. The book is illustrated with some excellent photographs.
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