ROUND THE WORLD DT A MOTOR CAR.
Round the World in a Motor Car. By Antonio Scarfoglio. Translated by J. Parker Hayes. (Grant Richards. 15s. net.)— Signor Scarfoglio and his companions started from the office of the Matin in Paris on January 28th and reached America on February 6th. The journey across America occupies about half the volume. There is the usual story of accidents, breakdowns, and hardships. Not the least notable thing is the extraordinary enthusiasm among the Italian "exiles" which the affair excited. If the States had been a part of Italia Irredenta they could not have been more moved. Then the car was transported to Japan. Japan traversed, the voyagers made their way across Manchuria, Transbaikalia, Siberia, Russia, and Germany. Near the European frontier there was a fatal accident. The horses in a cart, frightened by the car, ran away and a child was killed,— how many horses were frightened, we wonder, during this round- the-world journey ? The result was three days in a Russian prison. On September 17th Paris was reached.
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