Ecounrens Wit ALL Sorts oP Prorus. By B. Ifor Evans. London: Hodder and Stoughton. 10s, 6d net, BYWAYS OP THE Troric SAS. By.
Hermann Norden. London:
and G, Witherby. 16s net.
How the world shrinks! tury ago' young man fished his fedueation with "a "Grand. Tour' hich extended to a year's wander-Ing over a portion of Burope. Now, ike lite, Evans, who was one of the ortunaie, holders. of the. Kaha 'Travelling Fellowship, be takes. no-ing less than the whole world for his oyster. Mr, Bvana travelled Easy tao with Zaghio Pasha in Eqypt, with Ghandi in a Fairbanks in California, and' with host of leas important, But more Soluble People, "He was' happy in-ficed. in some. of his encounters. Great good luck brought into. railway" carriages in Chi Indy. missionary. from Birmingham who could tall of adventures galore. 'Then there was. the entertaining psycho-analyst, and, most curious' Character of vall—the'" Englishman turned American who had made a fortune by persuading the "women the Middle: Western. back: Dlocks make a virtuous necessity rouge.
Mf, Evans we and." diaecrament, frraceful and limpid English. Some Gr'the opinions he gathered from men on the spat" are enlightening out for all this his book is vaguely flitappointing. "I started out from England," he says, "with a respect for theories; I return with a respect for facts." This di ment is, of course, interest are sicklied o'er with the pale east of his introspection me dullish reading for the rest of us.
too, into some curious in. Jaccuracies. 'A writer ought not in 1025 to be encouraging people the idea that the. English in India lore properly called "Anglo-In-"when the term has been ied by the Eurasians, and, therefore, incontinently dropped by! all whites.
"That high official surely never spoke of ill-bred young "puppets." And there are other such [signs of carelessness.
Mr. Hermann Norden travels in different warec—vivid descriptions fof exotic corners of the world Ike the Solomon Islands, where there are still cannibals holding civiliza-Jtion at bay in their bush fastnesses, where parleys are perilous, and exjeursions among the beautiful islands only for the wary. The main part of his book is about Bali, the Dutch East Indies, a land of such strange anomalies as Hind. linism without caste or any sacredness in the cow. Ata Balinese ex-
The condemned man, dressed in white, and with flowers behind his ears ig taken to the execution field, He pauses before a temple of tie dead to pray. Afterwards two men lead him before a counseller of the court, who reads from a lontar-palm leaf the judgment......An. executioner now, places himself in front of the condemned man, and asks his consent to the act...... The answer must be: "Do your duty." The executioner steps brok, pulls a Kris from out of his girdle, then dances forward, and thrusts the knife into the condemned man's chest.
The book is full of such intrigue ting information, and is enriched by fine collection of photograph:
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