ayin' Contre Forrane, Tuoi-Cly Blaha Hatton hate who became a Colonial Governor, and his lively pen skips. from the Channel Islands to the South Seas and thence to the West Indies with on admirable. facility.
The sub-fille of the book Is "Life in the Colonial Service," which sug fests a formal account of official periences in the limpid but unexelt-Ing style of the senior Civil Servant Sometifing, in other words, which is perfectly correct and superlatively well-documented, but far from amusing reading. This would omphatically not be a correct deseription of Sir Reginald's book, the outstanding quality of which is the humorously original attitude to: wards lifo which it expresses. Reading Between the lines one can make mental picture of the author as a pleasant colleague and an efficient administrator who is at the same time a very sound critic of his own sations, A man with this balanced type of mind is never likely (0. Iel hhis "achievements, however considerable, betray him' into either conceit 'oF self-conscious deprecation, and he is therefore particularly well quali-fled to while an autobiography. tells @ good story well and is & per= fect mine of unusual scraps of" information. Tt would be interesting to know, for instance, how. many people realize that the way the order "Show a leg" originated was lat ten fen ces Se cree
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