26 OCTOBER 1929, Page 35

Mr. Noel Buxton is a much travelled politician or a

very political traveller, and in the charming little volume of Travels and Reflections (Allen and Unwin, 10s.) both his main interests in life are represented. Most of the ten chapters relate to the Near East and the Middle East. He recalls a journey over the lonely Kurdish hills, the field hospital after the Bulgarian victory at Lule Burgas, the attempt of a Turkish Nationalist to murder him and his brother at Bucharest in 1914, and a visit to Tabriz. Elsewhere he describes the ascent of Fuji and Enasan in Japan, and a journey in the Sahara. Nothing could be better in its way. Mr. Buxton's chapters are all too brief.