My solicitude for unguided foreigners in London during the Festival
of Britain brings certain assurances. These welcome aliens will not, it seems, be completely unguided. Messrs. Collins will be publishing later this month for the Festival office a series of quite admirable sectional guides to Great Britain—thirteen in all at 3s. 6d. each—but London is omitted on the questionable ground that it is sufficiently covered already. The well-known Sunday Times Holiday Guide has this year expanded till it burst —into two halves, one for home and one for abroad. The former gives nearly forty pages to the Festival and kindred subjects and over sixty to London. That is good measure, and the matter is good, too. But I doubt whether we yet have the ideal guide for London only. Possibly a publication which I understand that the London Transport Executive has in hand will fill the bill.
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