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  "The next morning - Heaven preserve the world from evil! - it was still raining. LECTOR. It does not seem to me that this part of your book is very entertaining." Next in our intermittent sub-series, 'Of books what are set in France', we trudge along the road with Hilaire Belloc and make out way to Rome. No stone is left un-turned or without description in this sojourn across Western Europe. How far will you go with our author as he meets a cavalcade of interesting characters and spreads their stories amongst his own ruminations? Was the trip a success and ultimately, will it prove to have been worthy of the prized final destination that all books so desperately strive towards; our bookshelf? If you haven't already, have a read of it at the link below and see whether you agree with our summations: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7373   Further Reading For our inquisitive readers and listeners I direct you to an interesting biography that is able to expound on Belloc's life and works more than ou