HAPPY COUNTRIES By V. C. Buckley
Mr. Buckley is the typical happy traveller and Happy Countries (Hutchinson, I2S. 6d.) is as cosy and exciting as an evening at the pictures. He describes a recent trip to Scan- dinavia—no countries in the world but Norway, Sweden. Denmark and Finland could suggest such a title—and there could be no better subject for his genial pen. He travelled by car, and had as companions an English woman, her daughter. and a young Norwegian, who acted• as guide and interpreter. This gives a jolly family-party background to the story which some readers will find delightful, others irritating. However, the latter can always skip the fun and look for the facts, and they should certainly find the facts of sufficient interest to repay them for the effort. The author is interested in every- thing in general and nothing in particular. He describes a pointless hotel encounter with Mr. Attlee with as much en- thusiasm and care as a visit to a Swedish match-factory. It would, in fact, be a better book if Mr. Buckley were less easily amused.
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