BALKAN HOLIDAY
By David Footman
Like Russian Ballet and Byzantine Art the Balkans are fashionable. We have had latterly a fair number of. books on the subject, and we may be sure that more are to follow. Mr. Footman will take his place as one of the most reliable authorities on these countries. His new travel book (Heinemann, 10s. 6d.) recalls his earlier selection of short stories, Hall Way East, which presented so directly a set of lifelike characters. This quality of directness appears again in Balkan holiday, telling the tale of Mr. Footman's journey round Jugoslavia and across Albania. It is the well-written narrative of a close observer who combines many years' knowledge of the country with a quick sense of humour and a capacity for getting to know all sorts of people._ by the way, to whom . he gives a sympathetic understanding. The book is full of anecdotes which could only bee Balkan, and of short character studies which are as essential to a picture of the country as the brief but telling descriptions of scenery. This is a genuine book which should appeal to many readers.
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-We very much regret that, in a review of reference books for 1936 in our issue of January 10th, the price of Debrett's Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage and Companionage was wrongly given as 75s. instead of 84s.
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