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A WANDERER'S LOG. By C. E. Bechhofer. (Mills and Boon.

8s. 6d. net.) Mr. Bechhofer has the best of all literary equipments for a traveller, the power of vivid description in plain language. This account of his wander-years is a most entertaining book, and would make an admirable Christmas present. A pre- cocious youth, he began his travels with a trip to India on his own at the early age of seventeen, and in the ten years that have since elapsed he has visited many of the least known and most picturesque parts of the northern hemisphere. His selected memories present us with clear-cut vignettes of Kashmir and the Tibet Road, Malabar and upland Japan, Russia in the grip of the great famine and Smyrna in the days when it was "a gay enough place."