22 DECEMBER 1939, page 24

Beginning And End

"THE first star had appeared, and the scent of the huge night-smelling datura blossoms drifted towards us. . . . Two young workmen came by. Salud! ' they called, the Popular......

A Modern Marco In Asia

Peaks and Lamas. By Marco Pallis. (Cassell. as.) " kr the outset I tried to climb peaks in a bodily sense ; but in the end I discovered the Lama, who led me upwards to the peaks......