No Life for a Lady. By Agnes Morley Cleaveland. (Joseph.
15s.) THIS book has been a great success in America, and is a refreshing account of the Wild West before it was discovered by Hollywood. More than fifty years ago, when Mrs. Cleaveland was only eleven, her family moved to a ranch in the wildest part of New Mexico. Here her father was shot in an accident, she grew up on horseback, once played poker all night and met with a great deal of chivalry from the cowboys who had not yet been told by an excited public that they were picturesque. She hunted grizzlies, her brother Ray captured a wild man for the benefit of scientific research, and civilisation gradually caught up this fatherless but enterprising Swiss Family Robinson. The lively illustrations by Edward Borein are not the least attractive feature of an eminently readable book.
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