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PASSENGER TO TEHERAN. By E. Sackville Welt. (The Hogarth Press.

12s. 6d. net.)—Miss Sackville West's book is almost as much a travel-book of the mind as it is of the quietly adventurous journey she made from Bagdad, through Teheran, to Ispahan. In Bagdad she was the guest of Miss Gertrude Bell and had tea with the King of Iraq. She gives an unusual view of Kitchener ; she attended the dumb coro- nation of the Pahlevi Shah, and she throws in a quaintly tele- scoped view of India in passing. But her book is to be praised chiefly for its delightful intellectual asides.