Traveler

HOT COUNTRIES--Alec Waugh--Farrar & Rinehart ($3.50).

Author Alec Waugh, less gifted, less sprightly a writer than his brother, has been more places, seen more things. Says he: it all started in the spring of 1925 when the London Daily Graphic gossip writer spoke of Mr. Waugh's imminent departure to the South Seas. Mr. Waugh had planned no departure; but his friends became so importunately curious that finally he went. This book describes his adventures.

He recommends: Tahiti, where a month's visit is too long, a year's too short; French steamships (either the Compagnie Generale Transatlantique or the Messageries Maritimes) the native dances in Martinique; Siam, Ceylon, the lesser-known West Indies (Haiti, Dominica, Trinidad); the New Hebrides. The book is illustrated by Woodcutter Lynd Ward, author of the novel in woodcuts Gods' Man (TIME, Nov. 25).

Author Alec Waugh went to Sandhurst (England's West Point), was captured in the War, spent months in a German prison camp. Other books: The Loom of Youth, The Lonely Unicorn, Cardcastle, Kept, Love in These Days, Nor Many Waters, Three Score and Ten.

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