RESTLESS QUEST By Jerome Willis
Mr. Willis, like many another, could not settle down to a quiet life after the War. He had the traveller's urge and the writer's itch, and in Restless Quest (Hurst and Blackett, los. 6d.) he tells how he has satisfied them so far. There have been a good many books recently by restless questers, and Mr. Willis covers little new ground, either emotion- ally or geographically. But at least he had some idea of what he wanted, and therefore his book has some auto- biographical interest. He went straight from his civil servant's desk to Central Africa, but trading was not his line, so he returned to London and became involved in an election campaign. At last he got a newspaper job in Singapore, and eventually found his way into Reuter's London office. He left after three years, complaining that an experi- enced journalist had no chance against an inexperienced Etonian, and at the outburst of the Spanish revolution he was on the " Street " as a freelance. With a few commissions he went to Morocco and later to Madrid and in his last chapter we have his story of the early days of the siege. It all makes a bleasant enough book of average interest.
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