"oto e_ cone Halliburton, the Boy Ulysses, is rte, rman Rin of Mexico and South America the 3 time, tramping in the footsteps fern tp) habnoee It is a reckless, vagabond, perilous tite nate, hee rao, Sens tae Pale Sher eae et fete alone with nature and romance and yeu Batt Wier nie roe A toe Fnlole pate get tell the story by themselves. Here is Halliburton standing, ragged but triumphant, at the summit of Popocatepetl; saying goodby to the canal; enticing the lovely Manuella from her place behind the grating by the strains of his guitar; discovering the footprints of Friday (Toosday as Balliburton inimitably calls him) in the sand; dressed in his natty new prison uniform, the French penal colony; jumping into the a a aac Death, at Chichentiza yeven, Beats ne ne fed feat).
As in his earlier Books, mountain climbing. As "Who's who in America" records, Halliburton climbed the Matterborn in 1921, Pujiyama in 1923, and Olympus and Etna in 1925. Those climbs have already gone into copy and lectures. mit els Sal tate Fea He Soe those who say that when you have climbed one mountain you have hasten to say thint some Halliburton's adventures are excellent adventures. "He saw some danger and some hardship, But th effect is crippled by the deliberate. ness of it all, the hovering cameras, and the ever. my lecture before the Ladies' Literary Salon des Arts of Scranton, And Mr, Halliburton is not, in our opinion, a very good reporte A flood of ecstatic adjectives ant superlatives are there, but odd details that we want are missing, Possibly he merely tried to cover too much territory. The best of the book is in the chapters dealing with the French penal colony, Here the author has some real suffering and tragedy to work with, How new is material is we do not know, but observation is informing and detailed, And then, just as the reader is beginning to enjoy himself, he is plunged back into the Rover Boy play-acting of the Robinson Crusoe
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