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Zig-Zagging round the World. By Robert D. McEwan. (Hutchinson. 8s. 6d. net.) . Mr. McEwan spent three years and travelled 80,000 miles in his attempt to see the world, as it were, at one sitting. He has here briefly recorded his wanderings. His rather sketchy narrative is amplified by some remarkable illustrations. The series of photographs of the Falls of
Iguazu, in particular, is more impressive than whole chapters usually devoted to them in South American travel-books. Sometimes Mr. McEwan is too cursory. He devotes half-a- dozen lines to a journey up the La Plata, when the train is run on to a large ferry and carried for a hundred miles by water . He dismisses music with a wave of his hand : " We could discover no charm in Eastern music." Again, we should appreciate more information about the seemingly invisible houses in the Near East. Mr. McEwan was surprised at their handsomeness. That, of course, was all within, as no portion of such houses is visible from without." On the whole, however, his is not the worst form of globe-trotting.
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