7 OCTOBER 1916, Page 22

A Bachelor in Japan. By Eric Erskine Wood. (T. Fisher

Unwin. 3s. 6d. net.)—A slight but attractively written account of a voyage to and holiday in Japan. Mr. Wood has the gift of gay inconsequent humour and can be very entertaining, but the book would have been greatly improved if he had exercised more restraint. He is vory apt to drop into commonplaces, and the sentimental episode at the end seem quite out of place in a work of this type. There is also evidence of careless proof-reading.