... . abts Encslanb Wrotham Hill Kent TX7HEN next you take your ways about the hills and fields, reflect that it is the labour of man that has given them their final beauty. No traveller two centuries ago coidd laud the lovely countryside too manj' were the marshlands and the wastes, too frequent the unkempt, forbidding woods that harboured lawlessness. And do you know aught of survey work or ...

... Notes hROM Near and Far Cruising in Equatorial Seas The Turlle Crawl at Grand Cayman: A Sultan's Shattered Dream IN these rather cold and cheerless days I have been seeking warmth and comfort by looking through travel plans for visiting those places where the sun is shining; not a watery effort, but with the strength that drives you to a sandy cove to have a dip in the cooling sea. My fancy at ...

... GORDON TO GUTHRIE Scottish Portraiture Throush The Centuries HENRY HOULDSWORTH OF COLTNESS, BY SIR JOHN WATSON GORDON, .the leading portraitist in Scotland after the death of Raeburn. Many distin guished Englishmen crossed the border to sit for him Lent hv Cahtain I, tinea P. N. HnuLlsu'rirth SIR WALTER SCOTT, BY ANDREW GEDDES The artist was a contemporary of Watson Gordon and might have ...

... Scotland's Wealth of Artists A Chronological Survey of the Out standing Names in the Exhibition of Scottish Art now at Burlington House RAUBURN, with his flowing genius and brilliant brushwork, Ramsay, the portraitist of prolific, consistent output, and Wilkie, an outstanding historical painter of his generation, are household names that stand out in the proud pageant of painting and, needless ...

... LIVERPOOL BUILDS A MIGHTY NEW EXCHANGE Memories of the Old Building Where Economic History Was So Often Made e IT is amazing how a revolution can take place in the heart of a great city so gradually that its citizens appear unaware of what is happening. Yet a stranger, a visitor, such as myself, pauses in amaze ment. I stopped dead in my tracks when I found myself gazing up at a fine ten ...

... TANGANYIKA NATIVES STAGE AN ANTI-GERMAN DEMONSTRATION: Men of the central Kavirondo reserve marching with a banner to a mass meeting where they urged in very definite terms that Great Britain should not on any account consider handing the territory back to Germany. Demonstrations of this character, but on the whole of an orderly nature, have been taking place in many parts of the country of ...

... IP&BIS Guards Her SoniHiouiiinrii: By- ALEXANDER WATT Last year Alexander Watt urrote an article in The Sphere in which he described the constitution of the various archi tectural councils ivhich watch over building development in Paris, and now he continues his observations, elaborating particularly on some of the latest demolition schemes ivhich have aroused the ire of lovers of old Paris. ...

... Trends in Tunis /An Eye-witness Account of Current Conditions in the French Colony to which Italy Has Been Laying Claim By HARRY J. GREENWALL Tunis HISTORY is made so quickly nowadays that our memories are inclined to shorten, and we forget sometimes that this Montague and Capulet warfare in Tunisia is no Franco-Italian quarrel of yesterday and to-day, but an age-old quarrel which seems to ...

... I Visit the Moribund League By Ferdinand Tuohy IN the last days of September the Swiss Con federation was planning to move the League of Nations Secretariat to the town of Fribourg. It was thought that Mussolini might attack in the direction of Savoy, many of whose inhabitants had been warned by the French authorities to hold themselves in readiness for evacuation, and Geneva was deemed all ...

... LOOKING AHEAD Clever Buying J\[ow in Anticipation of the J\[ew Spring Styles will Undoubtedly Save Many Pounds Later On MONEY is not the one thing that a woman needs if she is to be well dressed. It is not even the most important thing, for experience is most quickly bought when it proves expensive. It is mainly a question of buying with one's eye on the future, and of knowing what one can ...

... In Lighter Vein Pictures from France and the U.S. Miss Sai Shoki, the celebrated Japanese dancer, sitting among her baggage on detraining at the Gare St. Lazare, Paris, following her return from the United States, where she has just completed a successful tour ECHO DE PARIS Many folk in the 8th District of Paris know You You, the little dog who helps his mistress deliver the morning papers, ...

... When WINTER GRIPS the ROADS Hints to Safer Driving on Ice and Snow By A. PERCY BRADLEY, M.I.A.E., A.M.I.Mech.E. (CM of I he Course, SrooWandi) THE recent spell of cold weather produced conditions on the roads which many motorists have never before had to tackle. On some days, but more particularly during the evenings, one saw the most appalling exhi bitions, not only of bad driving, but of ...