Other Laws. By John Parkinson. (John Lane. 6s.)—The end of
this book is both immoral and unsatisfactory, but the chapters which deal with the travels of the hero in Africa are well worth reading. The accounts of the life of the two English people in the little town of Boroko show the extraordinary sordidness of existence as lived by what may be described as "poor whites" in West Africa, and the descriptions of the dangers, both from the climate and from the natives, encountered by Hawkins and his friend make very exciting reading. The author is most interesting when he goes into details as to life in these wild countries. When he wishes to take his hero rapidly over the ground, the book becomes less attractive. It is impossible to care much about any of the people in the English part of the book, and the heroine is not a very sympathetic figure.
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