Journey ior Margaret. By W L. White. (Hurst ani Blacken.
7s. 6d.) CHRISTOPHER MORLEY finds that this book says more to him than anything yet published about the war. Without going to this length, it is possible to agree that there is something very fresh and poignant about this description of an American war correspondent's visit to London in the Blitz, his adoption of two war orphans, and finally his journey back to America with one of them. In England, Mr. White spends nights at the R.A.F. flying posts watching the bombers go off to Germany, he is bombed, he goes mine-sweeping in the English Channel, and rides amongst the incendiaries with the fire-engines. There is a good description of his journey to England in one of the American destroyers lent to this country, but perhaps the most cheering part of this book is that which describes the child's rest-centre run by Anna Freud in Hampstead for the children rendered homeless or neurotic by the air raids. The children's tears on leaving this place are a tribute to the success of its work To one who imagines he is sated with the literature of
• the Blitz, and particularly accounts of it by American observers, his small. unpretentious book may come as a welcome surprise.
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