10 JULY 1920, Page 22

Mayflower,' after being fitted out in the Thames, sailed from

Southampton, where she was joined by the emigrants who had come from Leyden in the Speedwell.' Plymouth was her last port of call in the Old World. Southampton has therefore abundant reason to hold a festival this month in commemoration of the great event of August, 1620. The pamphlet contains a short account of the Pilgrim Fathers by Professor Lyttel, a description by Mr. Dale of the Southampton which the Pilgrims saw, and a chapter on the development of the shipping trade and of Southampton in particular by Mr. Maher. There are some good drawings of the old town by Mr. Bernard Gotch and an interesting sketch contrasting the tiny ' Mayflower ' of 180 tons with an Atlantic liner of 45,000 tons like the • Aquitania.'