Man the Hopes (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s. (Jd.) is the autobiography of Mr.

Augustine Courtauld, a Vice-President and a member of the Committee of Management. It tells the story of an engrossing and adventurous life: of his days at Charterhouse and Cambridge; his journeys to Lapland and the Sahara; Gino Watkins' Greenland expedition, in which Mr. Courtauld served as surveyor and was in charge of boats; his naval service during the last war; and his home life in Essex.

Mr. Courtauld recalls his successful approach to the Essex County Council, as a result of which restrictions on the holding of flag days were removed, and it is typical of the modesty prevailing throughout the book that his munificent gesture in presenting a new lifeboat is dismissed with the comment: "Using a legacy left me by my mother, I decided to give a life-boat to be stationed in Essex or Kent. I discovered that the Walton and Frinton station were due for a new boat; the Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, named her Edian Courtauld, after my mother"..