Browne, John Hutton Balfour. South Africa: a glance at current conditions and politics. $2.50. Longmans.
A description of a voyage from England to Cape Town, Johannesburg, and Pretoria with a rather superficial treatment of present social and political questions.
“A two-hundred-page volume of impressions, views, opinions, deductions, and half-baked facts which can only be characterized as superficial and misleading when they are not absolutely inaccurate. Has committed to paper a vast amount of untrustworthy information.”
| — — — | Acad. 68: 242. Mr. 11, ‘05. 270w. | |
| N. Y. Times. 10: 210. Ap. 8, ‘05. 220w. | ||
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 459. Jl. 8, ‘05. 670w. |
“His book is very loosely put together. Mr. Balfour-Browne often fails either in observation or in accurate description.”
| — — + | Sat. R. 99: 743. Je. 3, ‘05. 1060w. |
[*] “Whatever he says is forcible and lucid.”
| + + | Spec. 95: 503. O. 7, ‘05. 560w. |
Browne, Mary. Diary of a girl in France in 1821; with introd. by Euphemia Stewart Browne. [*]$2.50. Dutton.
The self-illustrated diary of a little fourteen year old English girl, who spent the summer of 1821 in France. She regards her fine scorn for all things French as loyalty to everything that is English. At times her comments run close to humor though no one tells her that they do, and she could not discover the fact herself.