Circumnavigation Mr. Wynford Vaughan Thomas set off this week to
fly round the world in eight days—" the fastest time in which the ordinary traveller using existing air-lines can make the circuit of the globe." He is keeping us posted nightly, and talking to us from Cairo, Karachi and his other stops. This " knocking the nought off Jules Verne's eighty " might be accused of being very little more than a stunt, and I don't think a great deal of it as a geography lesson. It does not greatly kindle my imagination. There would seem little point in Around the World in Eight Days—except that the main point is Mr. Vaughan Thomas himself, a commentator of great expertise and enthusiasm. He is in a permanent state of amused surprise ; his voice is the audible equivalent of a raised eyebrow, and on Monday he made his Cairo flight—something of a commonplace by now—a little adventure of its own.
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