24 OCTOBER 1925, Page 36

Mr. W. H. Davies has at last followed up his

Autolriography of a Super-Tramp with an account of his later years. Later Days (Cape) begins :- "After some consideration I have decided that I have enough good material to work on : and that the book can be written without the least suspicion that I am trying to make common ditchwater sing like a pure spring. Let us not judge life by its number of breaths, but by the number of times that breath is held, or lost, either under a deep emotion caused by love or when we stand before an object of interest or beauty."

His book is an account of pleasant friendships and con- versations with such men as Edward Thomas, Hudson, Conrad and Brooke and of odd important or unimportant incidents.

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