QUEST ROMANTIC - {To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR. Sin,—Perhaps
you will kindly allow me to make a few observations in reference to the review of my book Quest Romantic in your issue of December lath.
Marshal Lyautey divided Morocco into two zones—Morocco utile and Morocco inutile. The first, it is true, can be visited in motor coaches traversing excellent roads, and there are luxurious hotels (for those rich and foolish enough to stay in them), but Morocco inutile is quite a different matter, and I should have thought everyone would have known the difficulties to be met with beyond the Atlas and the Anti- Atlas. Only this summer I had a most terrifying and incredibly uncomfortable journey crossing the Glaoui pass over the High Atlas, and a friend of mine fared little better.. I was fourteen months in France and know what it is to be terrified and uncomfortable in spite of "rose-coloured
spectacles." •
Moreover, I have served for eight years in India, Turkey and the Emirates of Northern Nigeria, and I should like to say most emphatically that the romantic life of a people has survived in Morocco to an extent I have not seen else- where. F. H. MELLOR, Captain. (Lately Indian Array and Assistant Commissioner of Police, Northern Nigeria.)
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