29 JANUARY 1927, page 22

A Spanking Travel-team

THE professional travel-book is engendered of the fact that its author, as a rule wholly unequipped as an observer, having visited a certain spot or region however well known,......

Illusion And Snowflakes

Hans Andersen. By Himself. Mary Howitt's translation, made in 1847. (Routledge. 7s. 6d.) DEAR readers of the Snow Queen, and the Emperor's New Clothes. and The Tinder Box, here......

The Russian Mocking-bird

Iv Ivan Krylov has had to wait some eighty odd years for an English translator who should do him full justice, it is certainly not due to any lack of universal appeal in his......