THE EAST COAST OF SOUTH AMERICA

By Sydney A. Clark '12. Prentice-Hall, Inc., 315 pp. $3.00.

Here at last is a book about South America written for tourists. Heretofore, anyone wishing to visit South America has had to make his way through a welter of histories, explorations, trade reports and memoirs of ambassadors, all very rich in historical, economic, and sociological conclusions but very poor in ways and means for the simple traveller. Mr. Clark has produced a kind of tourists' vade mecum, full of the opportunities and difficulties which the traveller will meet, most entertainingly described. It is largely planned around the service offered by the Moore-McCormack Lines, the only regular passenger-ship service from New York to the east coast of South America. It not only gives suggestions for the person who is stopping over for weeks or months but makes allowance for the cruise passenger who has only a few days in each port. This book has all of the information of a genuine guidebook but in the business of telling you how to get there it does not neglect the charm and atmosphere which make you want to go.