With Pack and Rifle in the Far South-West. By Achilles
Daunt. (Nelson and Sons.)—We must own ourselves at a loss to know whether this is a veritable record of adventure which the writer and the companions with whom he describes himself as associated went through, or an ingenious compilation. There is an absence of dates which inclines us to the latter conclusion, and a certain vagueness in the statement that the condition of things in the region described has very much altered since the time to which these adventures belong. On the other hand, the scenery and the incidents are described in a very vivid and picturesque way. A few words by way of preface would have been welcome, by way of enlightenment. However this may be, the story is a very exciting one. The hero and his companions make their way through the Apache country, and have some hair- breadth escapes from the red man, of whom, indeed, they "rub out," to use the favourite phrase of one of the actors in the drama, a considerable number. Finally, they make their way into Yucatan, and we have a description of the Toltec remains, which the American traveller, Stephens, described about forty years ago.
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