One can, of course-Mr. Chesterton has told us so-go to
Birmingham by way of Beachy Head, but it is not the ordinary route. Nor in these days of expeditious travel is it customary to make a journey to China by way of Transylvania, the Thracian Fells, Aleppo, Damascus, Bagdad, Kerbela (where Ifusein, the martyr, fell in battle) and down the Baluchistan coast. But that is Professor Toynbee's business, -and, as he takes time to chat pleasantly about each of its iilts, it is also our good fortune. He does, howeier,- get to China at last. What do we get out of this wise, witty and graphic book, which is called A Journey to Chirta or Things'whiclf.arr to hts. in the Turkey of Mustafa Kemal." That " the Present equilibrium between Englishmen and Iraqui is wonderfut but not stable.. That the " Far East is as a civilization one and indivisible.-. And finally, that " the crucial struggle in India to-day is not a conflict between Indian and Englishman, but a war in the ,Indian's -own soul between- two-civilizations._'.- (Continued on page 252.) Seen (Constable, 15s.) ? Many pleasant wayside pieth begin with, and then a just admixture of pregnant tho For example, that " police-o-cracy, the -dinairiaint feat
the Turkey of 'Abd-al-Hamid . . . . equally great i
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