HOLIDAY HEADING
WE have been asked to make some suggestions for holiday reading and do so on the understanding that- nothing but personal taste can be a guide. The files of the Spectator will be found to contain a list of the best books published in each wfiek,-, classified under their subject-matter, but for _those readers who desire an expression of individual opinion the following are some suggeSlions - -,i-PmLosoPrneAr : The Travel Diary of a Philosopher, by Count Hermann Keyserling, one of the most important books of: recent years. CONmEuronAity HISTORY : The Letters of Colonel House; and Mr. Baldwiii's addresses, On England.
LIGHT HISTORY The Memoirs of William Hickey ; The Romantic 90's, by Richard Le Gallienne. ' - Pommies AND ECONOMICS : Confessions of a Capitalist and If I were a Labour Leader, by 'Sir E. Berm ; The General Strike, by 'Sir John Simon ; and False Dawn, by Al. Carthill. The above might be suppOsed to' be too serious for holiday -moods, but they are all easy reading, 'except. perhaps Count Keyserling, who is Only ga-y'in patches; - Among recent travel books it is hard' to make a selection : A Mirror -to France, by F. M. Hueffer ; Corsica, by Rend. van .Juts-;; The Bay of Naples, by Mrs. Steuart Erskine ; Czeclui-slovakia, by Jessie Mothersole, are amMig the best 'written.
' We pass by sport 'and natural history, the noble essays of Conrad and the amusing ones of Miss MacAulay, and of Messrs. Lynd, Benson and " George Birminghatti," to give the novels that have amused us : Wodehous'i -Hart of ci Goof and .Leaeock'h Winnowed Wisdom are the lightest. The Private Life of Helen of Troy, by John Erskine, is good, and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, by Anita Loos, makes most people laugh, while The Cockpit of Peace, by F. Tuohy, combines comic asides with lurid information. Among detective stories we choose : The House without a Key, by Earl Derr Biggers The Stolen Budget, by J. S. Fletcher ; The.Black Abbott, by Edgar Wallace ; Mr. Ramosi, by Valentine Williams ; and The Black Scorpion, by Alastair Shannon. Three novels of a delicate flavour are The Green Lacquer Pavilion, The Venetian Glass Nephew and The Perennial Bachelor. Lolly Willowes is an exciting story of ,a twentieth-century witch, cleverly Written. The Houndsof Spring- is a " best seller " as well as a good book. Adventure stories are Tom Fool and Odiaa. The latter in Masefield's vigorous English is beautiful and breathless : had we to chose one new book for our holiday it would be this.
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