... WAGHORN'S WAY The Pioneer of the Overland Mail As late as the third decade of the nineteenth century the conveyance of mail between London and Bombay was a business of fantastic difficulty. Between Bombay and Suez the steamers were hopelessly inadequate, and had to be crammed even to the Saloon with coal to ensure that they would get the 1,710 miles into Aden, the longest leg of the journey. ...

... ONE cannot approach THE REIGN OF QUEEN VIC TORIA, by Hector Bolitho (Collins. 16s.), without re ference to Lytton Strachey, who, with his exquisite lucidity, stated the qualifications for such a work: A capacity for absorbing facts, a capacity for stating them, and a point of view. Twenty -two pages of Sources and References are a testimony to Mr. Bolitho's industriousness in search of facts ...