Bruno Cassirer-Faber & Faber

EARLY MORNING CREEPING DOWN THE THAMES Estuary breaks along the Essex marshes, over the Kentish heights and advances steadily upon London. Upstream, with the wind north-easterly and riding on the tide, the coaster and merchant ships bring in their cargoes of pit-props, molasses and bakelite trays....

MEMORIES OF AUSTRIA ARE VIVID AND COLOUR-ful and always seem as if accompanied by music. Sometimes we fancy we can hear the dreamy tinkling of the bronze cow-bells on the sun-clad foothills, stippled with gay Alpine flowers, or we hear the bubbling of a foaming mountain stream, the rushing of a...