This selection of delightful letters home to family members in England by Sir John and Lady Hope Simpson recall in vivid detail the terrible decade of the 1930s in Newfoundland. William Rowe wrote in the Toronto Star: 'The passages deliver a fascinating insight into the private minds of two members of that upper-middle clerkish class of England whose condescending liberalism, jolly-the-locals-along approach, and eagerness to make a career of performing the scutwork of empire, kept much of the map of the world British red for so long.'  (CND277, $26.95)