7 FEBRUARY 1941, Page 24

Sweet Thames Run Softly. Written , ind illustrated by Rober t Gibbings.

(Dent. 12s. 6d.) THE rather unbearable ramblings, mental and physical, of an artist who explored the Thames in a punt. Hearty, muscular; humorous and naughty, Mr. Gibbings discusses all sorts of subjects with gusto: girls bathing, the courtship of ducts, nudist colonies, spiders' webs, limpets, St. Mark's, but vve ar<

. always aware in the foreground of the artist himself, his Mg beard and his bucolic blarney.