Suggestions

Letters To a Friend, by Winifred Holtby. Macmillan. 1938.

These letters were written to a friend in South Africa and cover the years 1920-1926. They reveal a charming, kindly, satirical, and intelligent young woman. She was a close friend of Vera Brittain who wrote the well known Testament of Youth.

I Crossed the Minch, by Louis MacNiece. Longman's, London.

Travels by a bright young English poet to the Western Isles. Contains an interesting account of Compton Mackenzie in his lonely estate at Barra. Mac Niece will be remembered as joint author with W. H. Auden of Letters From Iceland.

The Rectory Family, by John Franklin Carter.

A vintage tale of a New England family's life in Williamstown, Massachusetts, before the Great War. It sounded a great deal like the story of my own youth in Amesbury and Beverly, Mass.

Flying Fox and Drifting Sand, by Francis Ratcliffe.

The author is a son of the English journalist S. K. Ratcliffe who is well known to Hanover audiences. He went to Australia to study the flying fox and the "dust bowl" districts of Australia. The result is a book which earned the praise of Julian Huxley, and which will guarantee to entertain you.

Ship of the Line, by C. S. Forester. Little, Brown & Cos.

A further story of Hornblower's exploits off the coast of Spain. Excellent account of a nineteenth century sea battle.

The Cassions Roll, by Hanson W. Baldwin. Knopf.

A recent estimate of European armaments.