14 SEPTEMBER 1929, Page 19

We are glad to welcome a new edition of Home

: A Colonial's Adventure (Longmans, Green, 4s. 6d.), which contains eighteen impressions of England and the English by Mr. Alan Mulgan. The chapters on London, Devon, and the Fairoak Players arc particularly well done. As Mr. J. C. Squire says in his introductory preface, the author " is a little blind to our faults, and rather kind to our virtues," but the book is a very pretty parting present from a colonial visitor, who saw more of this country during one summer holiday than most English- men would see in a lifetime. The five very fine woodcuts by Miss Clare Leighton add considerably to our enjoyment of the book.

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