MEXICAN INTERLUDE
By Joseph Henry Jackson
This book (Macmillan, 10s. 6d.) is an ordinary account of a conventional motor-tour through Mexico by a party of American tourists.. Every move is recorded with tiresome exactness. " We had come in at the back of the Palace of Fine Arts and so . we. made our way out by the imposing front lobby." Of Mexico City cathedral he writes,: " The Cathedral is • less impressive than you would think." They went to all the 'Aloes, did all the sights, took some photographs (the. best things in the book), went home ("At Victoria we stopped for gaaolina at the same pump we had patronised. on our way in. . . . ") and wrote this book, and called it by the inevitable title, Meriean interlude. It "may be of interest to prospective tourists, but the average reader will find it, as Mr. JackSon found the cathedral, " less impressive than you would think," judging frOm its attractive format.
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