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Rungll - Rungliot. By Rumer Godden. (Peter Davies. 8s. 6d.) LIVING in

a bungalow in a tea-garden fifteen miles from Darjeeling, Miss Rumer Godden walked on the hills and looked at the Himalayas: "Sometimes I feel my eyes mist get b.g with seeing far." This is a fair sample of the notes which she has made on the months she spent there with her two little girls, their Swiss governess, and the native servants. There is a little, all of it interesting, about the work of the tea-garden and factory ; rather more about the bung.a- low and its inhabitants ; and most of all about Miss Godden's emotions and sensations: "It is strange, the significance that white always plays for me." A slight book, with some pleasant lint drawings by Tontyn Hopman, which will perhaps appeal most to admirers of Miss Godden's novels.