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There. is something about That Capri ,4ir (Heinemann, .8s. 6d.)

that goes to the making of witty books. Signor Edwin Cerio has, not done So well as .eithei Mr. Norman Douglas or Mr. Compton.Mackenzie,nnd if he were to Abandon literature for :the invention of helicopters, as Mr. Francis Brett-Young .suggests is possible • in his preface, we are not sure that the .world would be very much the poorer. Yet the book has been '-much talked about both in Italy and England and may amuse those who know the island intimately. This reviewer yawned over it, although he spent a summer in that siren land,