From Cairo to the Soudan Frontier. By H. D. Traill.
(J. Lane.) —Mr. Traill went in the winters of 1893-91 and 1895-96 on journeys which furnished him with these experiences, firat re- lated in the Daily Telegraph, and now collected. The advance southward had not then been made, but it was in the air. Mr. Traill's observations are all the more valuable because, being earlier in point of time, they certainly make for the justification of the movement. Mr. Gladstone's Government gave up in 1884 a good frontier for a bad one ; the sooner it is advanced again the better. Such, at least, is Mr. Traill's view. He has other things besides politics to tell us about,—the Suez Canal, for in- stance, the British soldier in Egypt, Thebes, and tomb-robbery, ancient and modern. Whatever he writes, he writes with a well- practised pen.
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