The Edge o' Beyond. By Gertrude Page. (Hurst and Blaekett.
6s.)—Although the author of this book makes the mistake, so often combated in these columns, of regarding marriage as an institution founded for the benefit of the individual, instead of as an institution for to protection of the life of the family, the story is worth reading for the sake of the pictures of Rhodesia. There are very few people in these islands to whom the dedication will not appeal. These are its terms :—" Dedicated to all the women in the Colonies of the British Empire who are roughing it for tho sake of husbands, fathers, brothers, and their country." The part played by women in the making and maintenance of the British Empire can never be sufficiently acknowledged, and it is well that every one should be occasionally reminded of their immense sacrifices. The charm of the solitudes of South Africa is very cleverly convoyed, even to those readers who have never set foot in that land. But the novel will be read chiefly as a study of South African life, for this is its claim to distinction.
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