Things MortaL By Sir Frederick O'Connor. (Hodder me Stoughton. los.
6d.) SIR FREDERICK O'CONNOR is not a particularly good writer, but at least half of this autobiography makes agreeable reading because of the Very substantial interest of its subject matter. Sir Frederick spent the greater part of his working life abroad, in Thibet, India and Persia occupying official posts. Pros these vantage-points he was the spectator of many of the mog impOrtant events in the recent history of these countries, and his recollections of them possess decided interest. To the gra disadvantage of his book he seems, however, to believe that the same interest attaches to a luncheon party with some of the lesser lights of Hollywood as to close acquaintance With Wassmuss or the Tashi Lama, and the latter part of his book is scrappy and, by comparison with the former,. banal. Nor the four poems which occupy the final pages add to originalitY•
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