HERE, THERE AND EVERYWHERE.
Here, There and Everywhere. By Lord Frederic Hamilton. (Hodder & Stoughton. I5s. net.)—We are glad to have a third volume of Lord Frederic Hamilton's reminiscences. Ho has seen much of the world, he has met many interesting people, and lie writes pleasantly. In this book he recalls visits to the West Indies and Bermuda, to an Argentine estancia, to Canton, Ceylon and India, where he had some tiger-shooting in Catch Behar. In Ceylon he saw the " sacred tooth " of Buddha uncovered in the temple at Kandy, in a copper-lined sanctuary
without ventilation, before a. half-stifled throng of devotees. He relates the story of a great pearl, " La Pelegrina," which was found by Balboa in an island near Panama in 1518 and given to the Spanish Crown ; it was taken as a souvenir " by King Joseph, who left it to his nephew Louis Napoleon, who in the days of his exile sold it to the Duke of Abercom. Ho tells us that the Argentine railways have the Irish broad gauge because the first line was laid by a firm of contractors who had some old rolling-stock used in the Crimea but originally made for a bankrupt Irish railway. He recalls the corporal- gardener at Government House in Bermuda who tried to discipline his vegetables. The author heard him saying, 'Arris, 'Arris, I'm surprised at you ! Look at the dressing of that there rear rank of lettuces. Up with them all ! " It is an entertaining miscellany.
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