28 MAY 1927, Page 19

Sir Francis Younghusband has always something original and interesting to

say. In The Light of Experience (Constable. 15s.) he devotes a chapter to his literary activities and con-

leases that some of his hooks were failures ; this book at any rate should be a success, for although it is scattered and discursive, dealing with ninny men and various subjects in all sorts of places, there is the strong connecting thread of a personality that is steadfast and sane and rather typically English. The prose is limpid and smoothly running, like a placid river or a well-spent life.