Shorter Notices
The Land of Three Worlds. By Everild Young. (Andrew Melrose. 18s.)
PERU is such a varied land that it can well be said to be made up of three worlds. It remains, too, a country full of legend and buried treasure ever since the Incan Empire was colonised by the Spanish in the sixteenth century. Miss Young travelled through Most of Peru and the Andes, curiosity surmounting discomfort. On the last stage of her travels she sailed alone with a handful of hired boys on a balsa raft through little- known territory, putting up with crocodiles and malarial mosquitoes. Her journey was obviously dangerous and one is full of admiration. A book, however, that has so much good material—geographical, histo- • rical and natural—is partly spoiled by the travelogue formula which informs so many Women's writing, and an exclamatory, rather infelicitous style which leaves one wondering what there is to exclaim about.
B. W.
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