A Travel‐book Causerie

THIS is a subject which is supposed to be next to my heart. I am not sure it is quite so close. It may have been so at one time, but if ever I had a predilection for stories of travel it was soured long ago by literary editors. They have favoured me with so many travel books for reviewing that now the innocent face of another is enough to make me “reach back”; and a reviewer of books ought never to do that, on instinct.