ULYSSE AND THE SORCERERS. By Marius-Ary Leblond. (Allen and Unwin.
7s. 6d.)—The scene of this story, translated from the French, is laid at Saint-Pierre de la Reunion. Ulysse, a Kaffir, is cook to a European family. His wife deserts him, and later his only son runs away. Ulysse goes in search of him. He visits a sorceress, whom e finds to be his wife, 'and by her he is sent to a hermit, 'ho starts him. on a series of false clues. Ulysse has many dventures' , in the narration of which the character of the affir, with his combination of cruelty and tenderness, of perstition and common sense, is finely delineated. Event- ally, through. a charming abbe, the arch-enemy of sorcerers, lysse finds his boy, and the abbe's daughter, who has been ved from death by Ulysse, is married to the son of the "affir's old master. Not only as a study of Black psychology, ut as a love story and a picture of life in the little known math colony in the Indian Occ an, this novel is wholly esh and delightful.
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