This Way Southward

AFTER the manner ot its predecessor, Tschiffely’s Ride, this excellent book describes the author’s journey of seven thousand miles in the wilderness of Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego. It is marred by a few passages which are quite superfluous and should have been left out, but as a whole it is well worth reading. Students of style especially will find it remarkable tor showing how greatly a narrative is strengthened by the use of short words. Among many interesting bits of information, it appears that the Araucanian Indians had an emperor a century ago in the person of a jackleg french lawyer who set up shop as Orélie-Antoine I, King of Araucania and Patagonia. He seems to have been the emperor of all outdoors, practically, and his extraordinary story will probably be new to most readers.