"Off the Main Track." By Stanley Portal Hyatt. (T. Werner Learie).
There is sosrcely a page in this excellent volume which does not glow with the interest and fascination associated with the rough humanity of pioneer life in a new country. The oather tells the story of Sonthera Rhodesia be knew it in the nineties, and the tale from beginning to end is attractive and well told. Hyatt has an easy, pleasant command, he a delightful book. succeeded in making'
In the opening chapter describing the towoshi that it did celebration, everyone brated it—at the " Thatched House" of course. Almost everybody had his meals there, and the whole life of the town centred in the canteco, Trae, men bad offices where they kept old saddler, and and page of an classified samples leged gold-bearing quartz; bat when they wanted to do hi went to the they had no basines to do they for it to come along to the " Thatched.' The Aenizes made the great festival of the year, The Jadge, we a used to complain he could not sleep His room was part of an annexe to the hata used to complain, too, about the demesnonr of the Janes in the box. Some jorymen could never keep awake, and the rest seemed not to take the slight-eat interest in the proceedings—antil it came to acquitting the prisoners. That resalt followed in almost every case, 3s a matter of course. The tiny community seems to have bad infinite faith in the coming of a great "boom" in trade." When things were very doll
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