Mr. C. S. Forester's The ,Voyage of the "Annie Marble"
(Lane, 8s. 6d.) points the way to a delightful and cheap holiday. This is the way the author and his wife got it : by motor- dinghy from Rouen up the Seine to St. Mamme,s ; by canal to Orleans and thence down the Loire to Nantes. Total cost over eleven weeks for two (and sometimes three) persons, 256 75. 6d. ; the boat and camping-gear (realizable on) 299 10s. The author agrees with another and an earlier traveller through France, Arthur Young, in singing the praises of the lower Seine," whose beauty surpasses all the storied beauties of Cliveden Reach and Marlow." And then there are the castled delights of the Loire, "the loveliest river in Europe." But the intending voyager is warned against the upper Loire, which, as has been said by another, "rolls shingles thro' vales instead of water." The book is written in gay light-hearted vein, and is in addition an eminently practical guide to the famous château country from an entirely new aspect. * * * * (" More Books of the Week" and "General Knowledge Compe- tition" will be found on pages 873 and 874.)
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