MEMOIRS.
MEMORIES OF FOUR CONTINENTS. By Lady Glover. (Seeley, Service. 16s. net.) MEMORIES OF FOUR CONTINENTS. By Lady Glover. (Seeley, Service. 16s. net.) Lady Glover is the widow of Sir John Hawley Glover, who was successively governor of Newfoundland and the Leeward Islands. She recalls in this book some of her experiences as a Governor's wife, as well as her travels abroad to Egypt and India and her friendships with notable people here and on the Continent. Lady Glover's writing is like most conversation : one topic or name suggests another, and that again a third, and so on, until the reader loses all sense of time or space and feels as if he were a formless nebula spinning in the void. The most definite of her many anecdotes is the statement that an officer's private telegram, which she circulated at once to the Service clubs and the Press, was the first news which London had, in the spring of 1914, of the resolve of the Cavalry officers to send in their papers rather than fight the loyal Ulster Protestants. Lady Glover says that all other telegrams of the kind were delayed or suppressed by the Liberal Government.
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