7 AUGUST 1926, Page 18

The Iceland Year Book, 1926, has quite convinced us of

the . superiority of Reykjavik in the summer over Covent Garden.' We would like to see the residence of Snorri Sturluson, Iceland's foremost son, where "there are two considerable steaming fountains, one of which (Skrifia) still feeds a great bath con- structed by this celebrated sagaman of the thirteenth century." This must be a delightful land to travel in; as Lord Dufferin taught us long. ago, with its glades andobsidian 'mountains and the Northern Lights reeling across the