4 DECEMBER 1909, Page 9

Swift and Sure. By Herbert Strang. (H. Frowde and Hodder

and Stoughton. 2s. 6d.)—Mr. Strang has a laudable desire for the bettering of the South American Republics. Perhaps the first step may be the making English people interested in them, and the beginning of this again the telling of good stories, not without a moral, of what goes on within their borders. Here we begin in a most promising way by Will Pentelow killing a jaguar with a hydroplane. Will and his hydroplane play an important part in Venezuelan affairs, and those who share Mr. Strang's sympathies cannot do better than read about them.