6 JANUARY 1933, Page 32

Blackwood's publishes, under the title of" The Lost City of

My Quest," an article by Colonel P. H. Fawcett, who dis- appeared in Central Brazil in 1925. In this article, written not long before he left England, Colonel Fawcett sets out at length the eighteenth-century tale of an abandoned city in the remote interior which led him to go on the expedition that probably cost him his life. To the practised novel-reader it will seem odd that Colonel Fawcett was so credulous as to accept this anonymous yarn as literally true, with its fantastic " hieroglyphs " and other properties of the romancer. Sir John Fortescue pays deserved tribute to a fine service by describing the work of "The Army Service Corps in the Great War."