I simply adore all Ballantyne novels. The stories with Zouga/Ralph are far better than the newer stories, but all in all, a masterful epos. I'm now re-reading
The Angels Weep for the 3rd time, about 2 minutes after I finished
Men of Men for the 3rd time (the 2 minutes were to get the succesor from my shelf). I love re-reading Smiths' novels, but in doing this I found a small continuity error
. In
Men of Men when Lobengula says his farewells to the Codringtons, the twins are described as being 21 years of age. Yet when Ralph suggests to Cathy in
The Angels Weep to have the twins over to mellow, well, Mellow, they are suddenly 18. Bit of an error there. Not a big one, but still a tad annoying. Apart from that 5/5 every time!