6 JANUARY 1923, Page 34

WHERE THE TWAIN MEET. By Mary Gaunt. (Murray. 15s. net.)

" Perhaps in a former life," writes Mrs. Gaunt, " I, too, 'was a slave " ; and this consideration has filled her with sympathy for the negroes and half-breeds of Jamaica. She has therefore written a sentimental history of the country from the days of buccaneering and slavery to the present. She shows no appreciation of the difficulties of the colour- question ; but, embedded in her expansive moral comments there are interesting extracts from the journals of old slave- traders.