. THE YELLOW-MANED LION. By Ernest Glanville. (Cape. 38. 6d.)
Tins story of a lion originally appeared in a previous book by Mr. Glanville dealing with the animal life of the African veld and jungle. It proved so popular that it 'is now reprinted by itself in a volume which, with its realistic illustrations by Mr. Warwick Reynolds, is one of the cheapest books we have seen for some time. It is not difficult to understand the 'deniand for this new edition. To say that Mr. Glanville's life-story of the lion,- Ngonyama, is as readable as a novel would be to pay it scant justice. To begin with, it contains more thrills—natural thrills—than most novels. The account, for instance, of the lion's fight with its worthy antagonist, the crocodile, is a wonderfully tense piece of prose writing. But Mri Glanville gives us more than excitement ; he makes us actually see and smell and hear, through the lion's own senses, the sights and scents and sounds of the veld, and incidentally introduces many little pictures of native life and customs. Mr. Glanville's style is as polished as his matter is interesting, and he has a delightfully dry sense of humour. His volume should be immensely popular as a gift for boys. But it is also emphatically a book for adult reading.
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