2 APRIL 1921, Page 25

roamer. Before he was sixteen he had been to Australia

and had wandered over South Africa. In this readable book he describes in brief and vivid chapters a course of world-travel, in Africa, the Americas, Europe and Russia, the Near East and the Far East, and the South Seas. It is a rather breathless narrative, with summary and dogmatic verdicts on each of many countries, but it is extremely amusing. At the end he says, " I have done what I set out as a boy to do, seen everything, travelled nearly a million miles—and lost my way. I have seen the Whole World and have no notion what it all means."