18 NOVEMBER 1893, Page 10

In Africa with the Union-Tack. By W. Pimblett. (J. S.

Virtue and Co.)—Even the interest attaching to some of the adventures of our " Union-Jack" in Africa cannot redeem the very third-rate style and treatment of his subject by Mr. Pimblett. Gush without "go" is nauseating, and narrative without distinction about it, wearisome. As a short sketch of African wars, people who wish to furbish-up their memories might glance at it ; but painstaking as parts of it are meant to bo, it has hardly the manly and serious tone that should fit it for boys.