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Far Away Up the Nile. By J. G. Millais. 
Longmans. 40s. net. 
The "V ast-Sudan. By A. Radclyffe Dug- 
more. Arrowsmith. 21s. net. 
How long will it be before we have a 
Soudan classic? Sir Reginald Wingate’s 
“ With Fire and Sword ” is the story of 
■a Soudan already ancient history; Slatin 
Pasha treated of the same period; Lord 
Cromer devoted but a minor portion of 
his masterly work to the land south of 
AsSouan. Mr. Percy Martin some time 
ago gave us a book packed with a vast 
amount of information, but his method 
savoured too much of index and, the cata¬ 
logue; Mr. Abel Chapman gave us some¬ 
thing very nearly great in his “ Savage 
Sudan,”, but his treatment was too spe¬ 
cialised to meet our needs. Now we have 
“Far away up the Nile” and “ The Was t 
Sudan.” 
To be quite frank, neither book fills the 
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