23 JANUARY 1959, Page 35

Peacocks and Pipelines. By Elizabeth neaves. (Lutterworth, 15s.) Miss Balneaves

took her camera and her clichés across Pakistan and India, from Baluchistan to Bengal, sketching and photographing the most poverty-stricken people, and their ancient customs, as well as the new industrial installations of modern India. There is

much that is fascinating in her view of the two worlds, cheek by jowl, and much that is improb- able, such as that Bulganin and Khrushchev, in Calcutta at the same time as the author, were 'terrified out of their wits' by the enthusiastic crowds.