Take up a Book and away you go..

SWITZERLAND, by Dore Ogrizek and J. G. Rufenacht (McGraw-11111, 30s.).
ET another volume in the World in Colour series.
This is more than a guide book. It will he of excellent value, to the traveller intending to visit Switzerland knowing a little more than the rate of exchange, and it will be an equal joy to the armchair traveller. Beautifully and profusely illustrated in colour and black and white, this book is highly recommended.
The same publishers have added two titles to their pocket travel guides: " Western Germany " and " Austria " both edited by Dore Ogrizek and published at I 5s. This series now totals seven useful volumes and although one still hopes that such a pocket-guide might contain a little less unnecessary information, and consequently be a little cheaper, the series is nevertheless excellent for its purpose and should provide well for many travellers, particularly the Continental motorist.
ITALY BUILDS, by G. E.
Kidder-Smith (Architectural Press, 56s.).
THE third book in a series on European architecture by this author provides more than 750 illustrations of Italy. This volume will dispel the traveller's notion that Italy is a land of the past and introduce the reader to an exciting display of the blending of old and new.
THE YOUNG TRAVELLER IN GREECE, by Geoffrey Trease (Phoenix House, 8s. 6d.).
/THIS series of travel guides is becoming an established favonrite. Its personal and partly fictional approach makes it more readily readable for the younger than the normal matterof-fact details of the guidebook. Since there is comparatively little travel literature available about Greece, this book should be all the more acceptable.
INDIA, by Richard Lannoy (Thames and Hudson, 42s.).
TH's publishing house has produced many fine volumes of books to interest the travelminded, and " India " must rank amongst the best. The photography is real and imaginative, and the colour reproductions are particularly pleasing, adding a lustre of mystery to a country which to the Western eye often
appears as a dream world. This book is worth twice the price. a
THE LAND OF BURNT FACES, by John Buchbolzer (Arthur Barker, 18s.).
-11 is an uncommon experience 1to write a book not as an adventurous traveller but as a result of seeking a home. It is even more unusual that this search should be in Ethiopia. John Buchholzer's book is his account of this little known country through which he travelled so thoroughly In find somewhere to settle.
ISLANDS OF TOMORROW, by John-Erik Elmberg (Rupert Hart Davis, 18s.).
NOT many readers could contemplate such a journey as the author of this hook has undertaken, and indeed it must have called for rare perseverance-via Bombay. Southern India and Ceylon to Celebes in Idonesia and on to New Guinea and New Zealand. It is an interesting account of everyday life of the more primitive peoples, MOUNTAIN PANORAMA, edited by Max Robertson (Max Parrish, 15s. 6d.).
SIR JOHN HUNT, Sir Arnold Lunn. Sir Stanley Rous, Wil frid Noyce and Wynford Vaughan-Thomas contribute to this hook of winter sports and climbing. It should appeal to the sportsman but also to a wider circle of readers, for it contains some excellent photography.
THE MOUNTAINS OF IRELAND, by D. D. C. Pochin Mould (Batsford, 21s.).
WHEN thinking of European mountains one is apt to refer immediately to Switzerland and Austria and spare little thought for nearer home. But Ireland too has its mountains, less majestic and forceful perhaps, but nevertheless not to he ignored. There is beauty in the Mournes. Croagh Patrick and the GaItees.
This hook also breaks much new ground for Dr. Pochin Mould is more than a climber: she is a geologist and an authority on the ancient Celtic Church in Ireland. These attributes help to make this book unusually suc
cessful •
FOREIGN DINING DICTIONARY, by Robert Jay Misch (Constable, 2s. 6d.).
IT you are afraid that lack of language may mean hunger for you this book will ensure that you will eat and drink in at least seven European countries.