2 JANUARY 1926, Page 33

The Flying Emerald. By Ethelreda Lewis. (Iiodder and Stoughton. 7s.

6d. net.)-----Mrs. Lewis has given us a stirring story of " German " South West Africa during the Post-War period, which, for all its incident and movement, is firmly based upon a keen sense of character and is strengthened or undermined by the monotony and rigaurs of that desolate. land. Her Germans, good and evil, are exceptionally well drawn, and she has presented to us a little Bushman, a gem of

insight into the native mind.