He likes the Animals

LUNCH WITH LIVINGSTONE, by Cyril Kantor (Michael Joseph, 1Ss.). Ai2,000-MILE trip with a car, a camera and a wife through Tanganyika, Uganda, Kenya and the Belgian Congo. The descriptive writ ing is good, and when the author—.a South African—treats of animals, places and things, he is invariably sympathetic. You will not find him so when he writes about human beings, unless you share his view that "blacks, like children, don't respond to kid-glove treatment," and can understand his getting "mad" when "black men thumbed lifts" in East Africa, and his pleasure in the Congo when they waved joyfully from the roadside and "even stood to attention a d saluted." He makes Uganda sound pleasant, Tanganyika a trifle nasty, and Kenya an unbelievably beautiful place to be murdered in. He liked, in the Congo, the Belgian native policy, which he thought "neither persecuted nor pampered." He found "the blacks" there "pleasant and polite" in contrast to "whites," who were "rude and greedy."
There are some exciting stories and adventures which are well narrated, and for its entertainment value the book can be recommended. D. C