THE WELL MEANING YOUNG MAN. By Luise end Magdalen King-Hall.
(Herbert Jenkins. 7s. 6d.)—Wholly inoffensive, with a gay good humour rare in books of the kind, this diverting account of the surprising adventures of a modern young innocent abroad is exactly the right fare for two idle hours during convalescence, a train journey, or a quiet evening after a day's grilling work. Daniel, the twenty-year-old hero, is an optimistic Irishman with almost no vocabulary, little enough sense and no knowledge of the world. He is the despair of his parents, the shame of his " good " brothers in the Services, and for them has one virtue only, that he both hunts and rides brilliantly. As a last resort, they get him a post in Sicily. On his most original way there, he finds himself in the oddest places, like the opera house in Cologne where he is horribly bored. The book is intended to amuse. It does so very shrewdly, and before we leave the simple David safely in Palermo, we cannot but grow fond of this strong silent ass with his nice ways.
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