BOOKS.
THIS WEEK'S BOOKS.
TRAVEL and adventure are the prevailing themes among this week's books. Racundra's ' First Cruise, by Mr. Arthur Ransome (Allen and Unwin), which tells of a voyage in a small cruising boat from Riga to Helsingfors and back, promises to be a delightful book, and Adventures in the Near East, 1918-1922, by Col. A. Rawlinson (Melrose), deals with the "Hush-Hush," or Phantom Army, adventures in Transcau- casia and Kemalist Turkey. In Many Places, by Mrs. Clare Sheridan (Cape), is concerned with various European countries and personalities which she visited as special correspondent of the New York World, and Mr. Harry Green- wall, special correspondent of the Daily Express, gives a vivid account, in Scoops (Stanley Paul), of adventures which include a visit to Berlin immediately after the Armistice. Older adventure is represented by a charming reprint from the Cambridge University Press of Boswell's Tour to Corsica, an entertaining work in which Bozzy frequently provides an amusement which he does not intend. Admirals of the Caribbean, by Mr. Francis R. Hart (Allen and Unwin), illus- trated with reproductions from delightful engravings, recounts the exploits of the early navigators, and of Drake, Rodney, and others.
Thirty Years of Psychical Research (Collins) is a weighty work translated from the French of Dr. Charles Richet, with the sub-title, A Treatise on Metapsychics. William Byrd : A Short Account of his Life and Work, by Dr. Edmund Fellowes (Oxford), and Sir Henry Hadow's British Academy lecture on Byrd (Humphrey Alifford), are both important books on a supremely important composer whose tercentenary is at present being celebrated.
Three Chapters on the Nature of Mind, a posthumous work of Dr. Bernard Bosanquet (Macmillan), and The Practical Basis of Christian Belief, by Dr. Percy Gardner (Williams and Norgate), are sufficiently recommended by the names of their writers. The Pageant of Greece, edited by Mr. 11. W. Living- stone (Oxford), is an attempt to compress into an anthology of translations an impression of the Greek genius. It ranges from Homer to the Epigrarrunatists, and appears, at a first glance, to be extremely attractive. The Innocence of G. K. Chesterton, by Mr. Gerald Bullett (Cecil Palmer), is another book which I look forward to reading.
THE LITERARY EDITOR.
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