A Foot's Hetu. By Rosita Forbes.
Messrs. Lhornton Butterworth, In the matter of the'seven and'" sixpenny novels—incidentally there is no indication of price jrcduction—it is seldom the critic finds himself in agreement with the customary publishers' notices. But when we find 'A Fool's Hell" described as "'an enthralling tale of Egypt and the desert' it pleasing to record that the publishers have been no more than honest. The writer has given us a very clever bock indced—a, book whose chapters hold the reader's complete interest from first. to last. It is a tale of one of the outposts of Empire with many stirring scenes of native life and of the regiment whose duty it is to uphold the honour of the ole country. The officers, from Col-oriel downwards, eater into the the pages only too infrequently for, from the glimpses seen of them, they are a happy, typical Jot and more time might very profitably have been spent on a depiction of their lives. However, the book is such an exce}- lent one that it is unfair to complain on this score. Rather should we be truely thankful for a most enjoyable time spent with MEA Fool's Hell." In the Reuter telegrams the other day it was noted that a foreign honour had peep bestowed upon the authoress of this book, and it is very. evident! from her latest work that she has a close knowledge of the people and country with whom she has dealt. She hag presumably travelled extensively and she has most decidedly made splendid use of her powers of observation. "A Fool's Hell" should be widely read at home and abroad and it wil! also be very keenly '@ppreciated.
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