23 AUGUST 1940, page 20

Two Books For Bookmen

YOUR constant reader is not always over-judicious. Indein, as Mr. Kellett remarks, some men read so much and remember so much that eventually they cannot distinguish between......

Holiday By Proxy

Mountaineering Holiday. By Frank Smythe. (Hodder and Stoughton. I 2S. 6d.) THIS lively and agreeable record of three weeks' climbing in the Dauphine and the Mont Blanc district......

A Mountain Farm

I Bought a Mountain. By Thomas Firbank. (Harrap. 8s. 6d.) THE author of this book, tired of two years' imprisonment in a Canadian fruit cannery, drove in a wild November gale to......

Brock's Benefit

The Stoat. By Lynn Brock. (Crime Club. 7s. 641) Murder at the Munition Works. By G. D. H. and M. Cole . (Crime Club. 7s. 6d.) Danger Road. By Mark Saxton. (Heinemann. 7s. 6d.) -......