SOME BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
[Under this heading we notice such Books of The week as have not been reserved for review in other forms.]
Petticoat Pilgrims on Trek. By Mrs, Fred, Maturin. (Eveleigh Nash. 7s. (id. net.)—This is a book of travel, adventure, and experience generally in South Africa. It is often entertaining, and would be more so if we could be quite sure of knowing when Mrs. Maturin is serious, and when she is romancing. How much, for instance, of the experiences as 'Social Editress " of the Morning Sun is fact ? A plain account of a " society " news- paper in South Africa would be really worth reading; but this farce is not. Then there is the Chamber of Mines business. We want to know what really happens in such matters, not what "screaming fun" Mrs. A or B can make out of it. Perhaps it might not be a bad plan to skip all that there is about the "pilgrims" themselves, though it will not leave much. This little picture is worth pages of " fun " :—" I love this little out- of-the-world spot on a calm, sunlit day when the hens cluck, the pigs grunt, the housewife hangs her snowy linen on the line, and the lake canaries in hundreds sing in the pink and white cherry orchards now in full flower."
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