Two Winters in Norway. By A. Edmund Spender. (Longmans and
Co. 10s. 6d)—Nothing will persuade us that Norway "is at its beat "—to use the phrase which Mr. Spender employs in his preface—during the winter. That it has special beauties at that time, as Switzerland has, may readily be allowed, but we are prejudiced enough to keep our belief in the summer. And Norway has the great advantage of its almost perpetual day- light. That counts for more than anything else in a holiday, when the less time you have to spend indoors the better. The ideal holiday would be if. by improved command over time and space, you could be transported home as soon as you were compelled to come indoors. However, Mr. Spender has written an enter- taining book about this particular kind of holiday. It is, we might say, on too magnificent a scale,—a library book anther than one for common use. This, however, chiefly concerns him- self and his publishers, unless we may infer from the fact that though he does invite "all the world and his wife" to follow him, he does not expect that any but a select few will do so.
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