CURRENT LITERATURE
KINGS AND KNAVES IN THE CAM4RO0NS By Andre IVIikhelson Andre Mikhelson, for reasons best known to himself, has cast his new book (Putnam, los. 6d.) in the form of a romantic_advniiire novel._ We have his assurance that it is a "true account of - experiences," and there can be no ques- tion that he had some remarkable adven- tures during his two years in the Cameroons. His accounts of native life and character are always vivid and often penetrating, and so are his portraits of Europeans met on his journey. But of the latter he says "no reference is made or intended to any living-personN It is something of an achievement to have written a "true account of txperiences " with fictitious people, especially as the greater part of the book deals with, and its chief interest lies in, the author's relationship with these people. Perhaps the real people-were too dull to- satisfy Mildielson's ideas of African encounters. Whatever the reason, here is adventure in Africa at its darkest. Agents of mining companies cross and double-cross each other, a beautiful French adventuress gives the right, touch of glamour, and - villainy is foiled at the end.
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