PRINCE OF THE JUNGLE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23037, 14 May 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)

PRINCE OF THE JUNGLE

BIG-GAME AND ROMANCE ' Novelists have gone far afield for settings lor their books, and romances have been made to flourish in many unlikely places, but C. T. Stoneham, author of "Jungle Prince," has chosen, rather unexpectedly, to set a story on the borders of Abyssinia, with only the merest reference to tho recent war in that unhappy country. Elephant-hunting in tropical Africa is the basis of the tale, with a dash of romance thrown in, but the human characters arc secondary to tho figure of a giant elephant, the Prince. With the hero and heroine, a strangely-assorted couple who have in common only an affection for the huge leader of a mob of elephants, the reader is taken to Abyssinia, to hear the deafening roar as a herd of maddened beasts, ■ their little eves red with rage, turn to attack natives who had been harrnr.sing them, and to see the havoc an a:ngry elephant ran cause as hf goes through a flimsy native village like a tractor; There are exciting moments in the book, and much sensible advice on the subject of bie-Kame hunting generally. "J tincrln Trince," by C. T. Stoneham. (Slack ie.)