IN NORTHERN LABRADOR.
In Northern Labrador. By William B. Cabot. (John Murray. 12s. net.)—Labrador seems to be in the fashion. A country so near at hand, and yet so absolutely unexploited, has caught men's fancy. Mr. Cabot has been lured by this fascination, and for four or five years has coasted round Labrador and Newfoundland, striking at last inland, among the Indians and Naskapi, up the Assiwaban river. And he has produced a most excellent book of travel, all the more delightful for its absolute freedom from literary embellishments ; he has written down an account of thrill- ing exploration as plainly as though it were a schedule of any ordinary day's work, almost prosaic in its hardness of outline, with illustrations confined exclusively to snapshots, and yet, by reason of his real experience and direct knowledge, a most complete and delightful book of travel. Especially Mr. Cabot has studied the ways of the Indians : he has lived with them, traded and fraternized with them, and, wisely refraining from comparison and theory, has given of them a careful account. Only, when the book shall have reached its second edition, let Mr. Cabot add to it an index for our guidance.
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