FROM JUNGLE TO JUTLAND By Major Claude Wallace
The publishers of this book (Nisbet, 16s.) have done the author a strange disservice by sending it out with a list of hints for reviewers. There are in all sixteen page references with appropriate captions added, to which attention is thus gratuitously directed. This device may lighten the work of a reviewer, but it also makes for dishonest reviewing, and sug- gests moreover that there can be nothing else worth-while in the book, which may be an injustice to the author. Fortu- nately we read the book before looking at the prompt, and it is curious that none of our notes included the sensational items so heavily underlined by the publishers. Following their method, we may draw attention to the dislike of the native for the Liberian colonist (page 4), the honesty of the unspoiled African and the deterioration which sets in with the advent of foreign ideas (page 168), the unusual habits of tsetse-fly (page 170), the swing of the judicial pendulum in the Congo (page 208), a rehash of an alleged bush-telegram (page 221), and a strangely worded title-page. The Admiralty's withers are doubtless quite unwrung. by the Jutland revelations on which the publishers lay such stress.
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