12 JANUARY 1929, Page 29

Two men who have seen much of the world collaborate

in an engaging volume entitled Travels -in Hope, after a phrase of R. L. Stevenson's (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s. 6d.). Mr. James Milne has written the short and genial essays and Mr. Donald Maxwell has painted the pictures which are repro- duced in colour-by some new process that over-emphasizes, perhaps, the grey tones. The travellers recall most of the capitals of Western Europe, with Vienna and Prague and Budapest, and flying excursions to New York and Quebec. Mr. Mihie's account of a Papal reception at the Vatican and his meditations on post-War Vienna are among the chapters that will be best remembered in a pleasant book.

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