Chapter C: M. VAN TYNE’S India in Ferment. Mahatma Gandhi and the general
background by a scholar and skilled observer.
SIR HUGH CLIFFORD’S _A Prince of Malaya_ and his earlier book, _The Further Side of Silence_. These are stories, true, fictional and semi-fictional, that take rank as literature. The author, a friend of Joseph Conrad, at the age of twenty-one was “the principal instrument in adding 15,000 square miles to the British dependencies in the East.”
SYDNEY A. CLOMAN’S _Myself and a Few Moros_. An American soldier’s lively but not unhumorous administrative experiences, with a good picture of what the United States has accomplished in colonial government.
H. O. MORGENTHALER’S _Matahari_. The Frederick O’Brienish adventures of a Swiss engineer prospecting for tin in the Malayan-Siamese jungle.
THE CALLERS OF THE WILD.
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON’S _Game Animals and the Lives They Live_, Vol. I. There are to be four volumes.
WILLIAM T. HORNADAY’S _The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals_, a book of personal observations by one of the keenest living observers and one who, as director of the New York Zoological Park, has under his eye and care the most complete collection in the world.
SAMUEL A. DERIEUX’S _Animal Personalities_, including domesticated animals.
CARL AKELEY’S _Men and Animals: An Autobiography_ and MARY HASTINGS BRADLEY’S _On the Gorilla Trail_. Mr. Akeley went to the Belgian Congo on a gorilla expedition, and Mrs. Bradley, well-known as a novelist, her husband and their five-year-old daughter went, too. Each book enhances the interest of the other.
WITH ICE.
APSLEY CHERRY-GARRARD’S _The Worst Journey in the World_, describing, in its two volumes, Scott’s last Antarctic expedition, 1910-13.
MEDITERRANEAN.
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