15 NOVEMBER 1930, Page 34

Sir Ronald Storrs' handbook of Cyprus (Christophers. 7s. Cd.) is

everything that a handbook should be—compact, well-arranged, exact—and unexciting. The romantic traveller will feel chilled by its formality and be able to express from its official pages little of the nectar of the gods ; but then the romantic traveller is an unreasonable creature, never content with facts and figures : hand-hooks are not for him. Sir Ronald and Mr. O'Brien, the joint authors, have set themselves the task of conveying as much information as possible about Cyprus in a compact and convenient form ; and have achieved their object to admiration.

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