Over Welsh Hills. By F. S. Smythe. (Black. 12S. 6d.)
Over Welsh Hills is uniform with Mr. Smythe's Peaks and Valleys and other quarto volumes in which the text is subsidiary to the illustration. The photographs in the present volume—mostly studies of the Welsh hills under snow
are all new, and some of them are excellent, notably those of Snowdon and the Crib Goch pinnacles, Craig picture Ysfa, Cynicht from the west: there is also a very pleasant picture of frozen grass, with frost-flowers growing from the grass-blades. The letterpress, describing (with occasional digressions) a winter holiday in Snowdonia, is seldom dramatic, though there are a few nice hair-raising stories, such as those about Alpine stone- falls on page 54, and a few admirably concise judgements : " There is nothing to equal the motor-car as a means of not enjoying the scenery, except, as already mentioned, the aeroplane and the submarine."
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