Evening star., 1934-07-08

any other wild thing seems to have escaped
her eyes, trained to vision in the Forest
great gray heron was surprised at his fishing.
a battle charge of a swarm of little birds
against a cuckoo was witnessed, deer were met
drinking at the streams the rough-coated
Forest ponies nibbled furze and bracken on
every heath. One walk was made memorable
by the escape of fox from the pack and Miss
Begbie rejoiced as he raced across the moors,
while the horn sounded Gone away" A word
of warning about vipers or adders, which are
occasionally found in the Forest, Is followed
by the story of her nights nursing of prede-
cessor of Bill and Mr.. Bundy, named Smuggler,
when he was bitten by an adder on the cnns
near Swanage. A gypsy camp furnished novelty
on one walk and a 1.-the, straight old gypsy
woman told her that she was in Thorny Hills
Holms and told her the way to Whitten Bot
tom Every kind of weather was weather for
walk If it was bright, the sun f1ickered
through the trees and made dancing patterns
on the floor of the woods; wetness brought out
the rich odor of peat heateh and gorse; frost
turned the grass margins and turf and Dogs
white and furry.
The history and love Of all parts of the Forest
Miss Begbie has learned from books and village
traditions The New Forest was a royal hunt
ing demesne under the Norman Kings and in
pne of its glades the place now marked by
stone William Rufus was killed during the
hunt by the arrow of Sir Walter Tyrrel, who
did the country such signal service" by neg
lecting to cry The bow is bent and drawn;
stand from the shaft" The lovely ruin of
Beaulieu Abbey is near the southeast edge of
the Forest. The abbey was founded by King
John in 1905. for the Cistercians and possessed
the privilege of sanctuary down to the disso-
luton of the monasteries by Henry VIII. There
Margaret of Anjou, Queen OF the Weakhng
King Henry vi, and her son, Prince Edward,
found a refuge before the battle Of Tewkes-
bury; there also the Countess OF warwick,
widow of the King Maker. sought sanctuary.
Miss Begbie's delightful book is illustrated with
photographs and drawings by the author. To
those who know the Forest her leisurely. partly
humorous narrative will bring many pleasant
memories and new impressions based on old
to those who do net know that fine part OF
England. it will serve as the best of introduc-
tions.
WALKING IN THE LAKE DISTRICT. BY
H. H Symonds. New York: The Macmillan
Co.
\h /HETHER you enter the Lake District by
w train or by motor says Mr.. Symonds,
the way to enjoy it, once you are there,
is to walk Following him as q guide, you
step from train at Shap not far from PEN
rith, and walk briskly westward, across the
whole district to Ennerdale, taking several days
for the walk. The line from east to west goes
through Shap Abbey, Haweswater, Mardale,
Patterdale, Helvellyn, Grasmere, Red Bank,
Clearwater, Langdale, the Wrynose, the Hard
knott Eskdale Wasdale, Mosedale, Pillar Fell,
to Ennerdale. Buttermere and the Gable,
Borrowdale. the Schfell group and the western
valleys may be visited on later walks. This
is the country whose highways are familiar
to nearly all tourists to England but whose
secret recesses and best treasures Of scenery
are known only to those who can walk, and
can walk good distances. 1t is the country
where Wordsworth and Dorothy and Coleridge
lived and walked and dreamed and wrote. 1t
is the country which has recently been 50
intensively and so affectionately described by
Hugh Walpole as the setting Of his Herries
novels. 1t is country Of many lakes and
many peaks, some wild and jagged. some
rounded and friendly; of rushing streams, OF
steep passes and sudden obliterating mists, OF
broad, sunny meadows. of small, gray stone
churches and white-waShed cottages, OF sheep
and shepherds
Mr. Symonds' book is an excellent descriptive
guide to the Lake district, not a dry-as-dust
affair, but full of details about what to expect
at turns of the trail and the top of the crag.
1t misses something, however, by being too i'm
personal. The walks could be followed from his
directions by any intelligent-and muscular
walker, but the reader who does his walking
vicariously would enjoy knowing more about
the authors own experiences-at what cottage
he stopped for tea, where he met an old
shepherd carrying a sick sheep in what water
he took dip, where he was "crag-fsst' on
a descent. Several appendices give practical
hints on walking an itinerary for a nine days
walking tour, and notes on tn. 20 illustrations
from photographs.
NEW CAREERS FOR YOUTH. BY Walter B.
Pitkin. New York: Simon g. Schuster.
has tI,o Foc{
iVi trant Of so much fluent advice about the
conduct Of life that he is almost rival Of the
Victorian Samuel Smiles. And he is said to
have another book in preparation for Autumn