Motor Days in England. By John M. Dillon. (G. P.
Putnam? Sons. 15s. net.)—Mr. Dillon, who dates his preface from New Jersey, went for a motor trip in England. We have not come across an express date, but we gather that the trip took place in the first half of last year. Certain allusions to the weather fit in with this theory of time. The route followed was (1) from London to Oxford ; (2) a diversion from Oxford to Leamington, taking in the Shakespeare country ; (3) Oxford to Lynton, via Bath, Wells, Taunton, and a return via Yeovil, Salisbury, Romney, Lewes; (4) an excursion to Hurstmonceanx ; and (5) return to London viti. East Grinstead. These journeyings are very pleasantly described, and they are illustrated by a number of well-reproduced photographs. Naturally the descriptions and narratives appeal in the first place to the author's countrymen. It is for them, for instance, that he writes the eighty-odd pages which he devotes to an account of the Colleges of Oxford. But an English reader will find no little pleasure, and, it may well be, some instruction, in these agreeable pages. No list of casualties follows the story, so we may presume that the tour was accomplished without diminish- ing the population of our island. An itinerary is given, with references to Mr. H. R. G. Inglis's "Contour Reed Book of England." The miles amount to a total of eight hundred and nine. As we find in one place a caleulation that the motoring, at a certain point, had cost 01480 per mile, we may reckon that the trip cost nearly -213,000- But this .is probably a joke. We must quote a good story about "Capability Brown." "I hope," said his friend Owen Cambridge to him, "that I may die before you." " Why ? " said Brown. "Because I should like to see Heaven before you have improved it."
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