30 JANUARY 1915, Page 37

Progressive Portugal, by Ethel V. Hargrove (T. Werner Laurie, 6s.

net), is a desultory aux:emit of what the author mw on a recent trip through Portugal and what she has read about that country. Wm Hargrove is rather out of her depth when she tells us that "the Phynologas was a very favourite book in mediaeval times "; of course she means "Physiologas." But this may be the fault of the printer.