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Chronicles of No-Man's-Land. By Frederick Boyle. (Ghetto and Windus.)—Mr. Boyle's sketches of travel and of the very varied forms of life with which a large experience has brought him into contact are always well worthy of attention. These "Chronicles are no exception: Indeed, they have won no little favour already, having been a welcome feature in the " correspondence " of the Standard. These pictures, sometimes of savage life, sometimes of a civilisation in which a primitive savagery is again revealing itself, came from various regions of the world, from Ashanti, from Malaya, from the Far West of the United States, from Mexico. Very carious pictures these, touched with a colour that, vivid as it is, we have no reason for supposing to be exaggerated, and drawn with firm, vigorous lines. Some of these take the form of a novelette, but always founded, and even more than founded, on fact. "Dr. Gates and
the Senoritas" is one of the best of these. Others, as "The Return from Candahar," have a genuine historical interest. The whole is as readable a book, from cover to cover, as we could easily find.
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