Lift with the Hamran Arabs. By Arthur B. R. Myers.
(Smith and Elder.)—There is very little here about the Hamran Arabs, beyond an account of the manoeuvres of their Sheik to make as much as he could out of the strangers whom Allah had smitten with a strange passion for killing wild beasts. Something, too, there is about the personalities of the limiters -whom the party engaged to help them. But of the manners and character of the particular tribe of Arabs whose name appears on the title-page we have very little. In fact, this is a book about sport, written with spirit and in a modest tone, not unattractive to the general reader, and specially interesting, from the novelty and magnitude of its subject, to the sportsman. Whether this latter personage will feel dis- posed to follow the example of Mr. Myers and the party whose deeds he chronicles is indeed doubtful. The "bags "were often very large. The elephant, the hippopotamus, and the rhinoceros were not uncommonly among the spoils of the day. But they were dearly purchased. Hunt- ing in Abyssinia is not a very safe employment. In this case it was probably prolonged too far into the spring. Anyhow, the party suffered grievously from =stroke and dysentery. One of them, the Earl of Ranfarley, died, after long sickness, immediately after his return to the coast. The volume is illustrated with some good photographs of animals.
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