... , by Norbert Casteret. Those interested in the art of pot-holing will need no recommendation to this book of cave exploration in the Pyrenees the author's name will be already well known to them. The uninitiated will find fascinating descrip tions of dangerous climbs underground, and accounts of the type of equipment required for this sport as well as a brief summary of what is known about pot ...

... 1 here have been many books on African wild life and there will undoubtedly be many more so long as the wild life is permitted to survive, but the unusual beauty of the flash light photographs taken by James Riddell, the author, raise the value of this work well above many of its fellows. Mr. Riddell writes modestly he disclaims any expert knowledge and with a sense of humour. In words and ...

... (tt Anthony Cooknuin The Indifferent Shepherd (Criterion J and THIS not quite satisfactory play is much more worth seeing than many another deservedly voted completely successful. The chief characters are human beings whom Mr. Peter Ustinov understands and whose hearts and minds he explores with a sympathy at once delicate and perceptive. It is unfortunate that some of the incidents chosen to ...

... , which replaces the old Point-to-Point Calen dar, is a first-class handbook for those inter ested. It has just been issued again and covers the 1947 season. The Point-to-Point people just missed the frosts and floods which killed National Hunt racing last year, and had a very successful season the record is, accordingly, a full one, devoid of blanks in the fixture list. The little book, like ...

... BEHIND THE SCENES IN BIG FOOT BALL The name and reputation of the author Leslie Knighton is a guarantee chat this is an authoritative and authenti cated work. It is well written, illustrated and packed with what are undoubtedly true, behind-the-scene stories. Stanley Paul, Ltd., London, 16s. ...

... - -1948 We are often asked by our readers whether Ashley Courtenay's Hotel Discoveries could not be reproduced in book form. To a large extent they are. Ashley Courtenay's Let's Halt Awhile, is now a hardy annual of which the 1 94s edition has made a welcome early appearance this year. Well illustrated and describing some 500 of his personally recommended hotels, we commend it par ticularly ...

... : Dr. Gyril D. Darlington, F.R.S., has edited the whole of the John Innes Leaflets issued by the Institution to date, including the latest No. 6 on seed production. The interest shown in composts, soil sterilisation, the fertility rules in fruit planting and other subjects studied by horticulturalists is shown by the fact that 60,000 copies of the five leaflets were sold during the war. This ...

... FATHER DOMINIC'S MISSION The Story of the Passionist Priest Who Received Newman into the Roman Catholic Faith In our own day the reception of Father Vernon into the Roman Catholic Church was a sensation of the first order, but it was as nothing to the conversion of John Henry New man in the '40's of the last century. England could hardly believe this news of the man who had once described ...

... (Vol. I. Sea- birds and Waders) There has been a marked increase in recent years in the ranks of British amateur bird-watchers, and although they have a wide choice of ornithological literature for deeper study, this publication and the two companion volumes which are to follow will undoubtedly be welcomed as the ideal pocket guide. No walk along the seashore, or by the marshes, should] be ...

... Margery Alliiigliaiirs The Muses' Darling- Three Came Home Orpheus The Franchise Affair The World of Music is the title of a new series published by Max Parrish, the first two volumes being Messiah, by Julian Herbage, and The Golden Age of Vienna, by Hans Gal (6s. each). The text is scholarly and attractive, and care and distinction mark the format. The illustrations are in both black and ...

... THERE is a set and conven tional pattern for what most of us mean when we say a Victorian woman, and an Edwardian woman carries its own image, too; that of a gay and ruffled beauty, pursued it Monte Carlo by Grand Dukes, and by even more exalted personages in England. Miss Clare Leighton, in writing her mother's biography, has called it the story of an invincible Edwardian, and that is a ...