2 JULY 1927, Page 25

Having said that Mr. W. G. Bond's The Wanderings of

Charles I. (Cornish, 7s. 6d.) records the various marches of Charles I., the product at once of royal irresolution and what Clarendon calls " a disjointed imagination," we can say but little more. The book, pleasantly written, is compiled mainly from Clarendon, supplemented by local knowledge ; it is illustrated by views of fine country-houses and pretty villages mentioned in the narrative ; and it ends with some quantity of sententious moralizing on the parlous condition of the present day, which, like the flowers that bloom in the spring, has nothing to do with the case. England of the seventeenth

century must have been a great country for cavalry operations, for fields were " open " and hedgerows scarce.