31 JULY 1926, Page 17

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS

LORD MONTAGU OF BEAULIEU has sent us The New Pores, and Its Old Woods (6d.), giving a fascinating account of the thousand-year-old forces of Nature which have gone to make up the woods that are the glory of England. The New Forest is the-oldest forest we haire in this country, and although it is always beautiful Lord Montagu recommends us : to visit- it especially in May, when the translucent green of the beeches and the oaks makes an emerald network against the sky, and in late October, in its autumn dress of brown and gold. The story of thegrowth of trees, guarded by protecting thorns and brambles; and how that in' their lusty adolescence they iiver- shadOw and kill their whilom 'nurses, is beautifully told: