7 NOVEMBER 1896, Page 12

Kloof Yarns. By Ernest Glanville. (Chatto and Windus.)— Abe Pike,

alias Uncle Abe, is the teller of Mr. Glanville's "yarns." "He called them facts," we read, "but of the truth of this the reader may judge." They are stories mainly about animals, the most wonderful of the creatures that figure in them being the "black tiger," which finally disappears in a very wonderful way indeed, an "old man baboon" taking his part in the catastrophe. We do not feel qualified to judge of the truth of these things, as the writer invites ns to do, but we may say without hesitation that they make interesting reading.