A nice idea, but only moderately successful. ‘Zoos’ tells· why – because in fact it tells so little. It appears to be there merely to complete the register and to allow Weg to contribute a final cartoon.

To have made it a useful addition to the vast – too vast – mass of books of this kind it would have had to be more solid; you can go too far in not going far in size, volume and price. There are pertinent hints for the first-time Ulysses, for instance on health requirements and intelligent hotel usage. I agree with the advice that you can often get a better deal by taking the cheaper room in an expensive hotel – buying your food elsewhere – than by taking a top-priced room in a less expensive pub.

But there is nothing on Switzerland, Russia, China, or Scandinavia. The entry under ‘Bidet’ is meant to be funny and is plain ridiculous – ‘When you have done as much as you can with toilet paper you complete the operation with water and soap’

Toilet paper… forsooth!

The entry under Bargaining needs qualifying much more, the one under Touts may make the anxious yet anxiouser. And Omnia Square would be, to Athenians, a rather interesting mistake. Not to carp though: it all reads quite amusingly.