The White Heart of Mojave. By Edna Brush Perkins. (T.
Fisher Unwin. 10s. 6d. net.) Miss Perkins and her friend were determined to find adven- ture at any cost. So they went into the desert. With no more provisions and comfort than a cart could hold, and with no other guide than a trusty " old-timer," they crossed the intolerable Death Valley of the Mojave, in California. The result is this attractive—if somewhat " thin "—hook of travel. For no country is more difficult to describe than the desert. Mr. Doughty, of course, succeeded amazingly ; but then his book is altogether exceptional. It is so easy to grow sentimentally eloquent about the " elemental nakedness " of the desert. And, however valiant Miss Perkins was in under- taking such a journey, she has not proved equal to an adequate description of it.
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