MEMOIRS.
My Notebook at Home and Abroad. By Harry de Windt. (Chapman and Hall. 12s. 6d. net.) My Notebook at Home and Abroad. By Harry de Windt. (Chapman and Hall. 12s. 6d. net.) Mr. de Windt is an impulsive and imprudent man. " I am not averse from making casual acquaintances," he announces ; and his habit of talking to ladies who drop handkerchiefs, rushing up to men whom he thinks he recognizes from photo- graphs, and in general taking everyone he meets into his intimacy, landed him in a huge number of escapades. Because of his friendliness, it seems, he was more than once in danger of being cited in Divorce Court actions ; and he has been hard put to it to show that his comradeship with spies and swindlers was innocent. "There is one place of sinister repute near Monte Carlo," he writes—and you may be sure that he tried to find it. His notebook is hurried ; his comments on his experiences are childish ; but the variety -and vigour of his life make the narrative astounding.
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