Brazilian Sketches

There is no attempt to hand out gratuitous information or to educate the armchair traveler in these informal sketches of Latin American travel. There are bits of writing in the old Kipling vein, but on the whole this adds nothing to his stature. Between chapters, verse belonging to this period is inserted, uneven, but none of it particularly significant, though some is better than others. The text on the whole is focused on Brazil, though one gets a fleeting impression of other ports of call. (Kirkus Reviews)