The North African Motor Tours of the French Line can
be heartily recoitunended at this season to travellers who re- meinher, as I di), the exquisite cirque of hills that rings Algiers, and the flush of evening light on the Sahara. They will want to take the eastward road to the magical city of Marrakesh, whose Sultan has recently celebrated his gorgeous nuptials. In the-square of Marrakesh You will find a-medley of Saharan typesgipsies, jugglers, story-tellers from the oases to the South, whose tales are older than Aesop's. The French Line issue- an excellent booklet, The Magic of Islam, giving details of some twenty tours, most of them carried out in their • fleet of twelve-wheeled Renaults, which would appear to einnbirie a spice of adventure and unusualness with ccinsider- able- comfort and absolute safety. My only criticism of the • booklet (whose text and illustrations are as lucid and vivid as the Mind of France) is that the cost of the journeys is nOviehere given : that is a detail, however, that we may easily ascertain at the outlay of a postcard. My next holiday shall be spent in one of these three-axle desert cars, exploring the Et desert from Touggourt.
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