ALL THE WAYS OF LIFE By S. P. B. Mais
Mr. Mais has evidently enjoyed writing his memoirs (Hutchinson, los. 6d.) just as he obviously takes a pleasure in broadcasting from the Eng- lish countryside or from America, and his personal satisfaction in either case communicates itself to the hearer or reader who is not too exigent. With a double Blue at Oxford he commenced schoolmaster, tried lecturing on English to semi-literate Cranwell air cadets, had a spell of journalism and then found his true medium in the B.B.C. and in the guiding of those walkers who cannot go alone. His oddest experience was to conduct a railway excursion to see the sunrise from Chanctonbury Ring. The company expected forty people, but 1,440 came ; when they had climbed to the Ring, the sun was obscured in cloud, and Mr. Mais had to comfort them with an impromptu address. Writing on his travels, Mr. Mais dismisses Europe as of no account, but is good enough to admit that he would like to revisit America.
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