A Max or te Hitts:—By Rose Wilder Messrs Thoraton Butterworth, Ld, London 1026.
How it comes about that the authoress of "A Man of the Hills" has selected London as her headquarters (for publication, at least) is hidden from the present review.
Her book is American, its scene is the Ozark Mountains of Ameri-she herself—if we mistake not American, and her publishers English. New York's loss is London's gain, however, so there is no necessity to worry further about. that aspect of the matter.
Except for the fact that Millers-ville seems to have more than its fair proportion of shootings and poisonings and tragedies generall considering it ig a mere village in Missouri, the story of the man of the hills' is one which must appeal to those with a knowledge of the country life of Amierica. It is the story of a "hill-billy" who sets out from his country home in the Ozarks to conquer the world as re-Presented. by the. local big town. of law eases is amusing He succeeds, naturally, but the tale
and cleverly told. There is a love interest and not a little touch of pathos running through the pages of "A Man of the Hills" and the book is one well worth setting apart an evening or two for.
Baroness Deichmann, well-known in European Society, a greatniece of Elizabeth Fry and' related to the Waddingtons and the Bismarcks, has written her reminiscences which 'Mr. Murray will publish under the jo "Impressions and Memories." Her book contains anecdotes' of a host of British and—_foreign celebrities, The Baroness has been coed: on terms of friendship with three German Emperors, with Carmen Sylva, Queen of Rumania, and with leading families in Europe.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.