My Leotcy Crosse (The Peak "Year Mlustrations,-Hutchinson, London, Mrs, Aleo-Tweedle hes an extra ordinary gift for writing a travel Giary just as if It were a kind of re~ cord which any ordinary voyager would like to compile for the benefit of her relations, As the list of Mrs. Tweedle's friends and acquaintances is exceedingly: long and gives her {nformal, access to sources of information which would not be avallable to the average render, the delusion has to. be gently exposed. Her versatility enables her to adorn her book with occasional reproduce tions of paintings and her skill as an artist is not merely that of antaccomplished amateur.. When she ends up with the remark "that she loathes writing books and loves painting pictures the: reader feels that she has wecurately discriminated between her two forms of expression.
It is easy to imagine Mrs, Tweedie's friends taking. a real' delight in: her narrative and the admirable photo~ graphs and reproductions of pictures which so generously adorn its,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.