The Guide to South Africa

practitioner is perhaps the most important in the book. Tables of meteorological observations, taken in various parts of Cape Colony, in the Transkei, the Orange Free State, and Natal, show at a glance the mean maximum and minimum temperatures, and the relative humidity. The book is so indexed as to lend itself to ready reference, and has much valuable information for those going to the Cape for the first time. Perhaps the authors are inclined to see most things in South Africa through rose-tinted spectacles. The maps are both meagre in the information they give, and not over accurate. They are not worthy of the book. One would express the hope that next year's edition will see