... Bv Elizabeth Bowen J Criticism CRITICS seem to have it all their own way-- how rarely anybody criticises the critic! Yet, how important it is that he should be up to the mark. The wrong kind of critic not only wastes one's time, he really does more than anyone else to put art itself in a bad position. He can create, where books, pictures and plays are concerned, what one might call bad ...

... Mother and Son Lord Leverhulme's Younger Daughter and His Grandson The Hon. Mrs. Stobart-Wetherly is the wife of Major William Erskine Stobart-Wetherly, King's Dragoon Guards. They were married in October 1938, and their son, Dennis William Stobart, was born in 1940. Mrs. Wetherly was Rosemary Gertrude Alexandra Lever, younger daughter of Viscount Leverhulme by his first marriage. The ...

... -/4 By Sabretache Panzers EACH man was provided with four uniforms, four different types of foot- wear-- knee-boots, ankle boots, ordinary boots, and gymnasium shoes-- a white woollen nightshirt, plenty of fine woollen blankets, mattresses and pillows covered with the finest French linen, and various French powders, pomades, creams and perfumes. The Times War Correspondent on the Libya front ...

... By Oliver Stewart Japanatics STICKING needles into one's cheeks and sitting on the points of nails are as nothing to the disregard of pain, wounds and death shown by the Japanese air-pilots if we are to believe our newspapers. The Japanese ideal of national service, if we go by these sources, is not knitting for the troops, but attaching oneself to a flying chunk of T.N.T., and then steering ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 119 i, New Oxford Street, W.C.i. Halloo-ing in Libya.-- If Heaven had elected that men should be born dumb, humanity would have gained on the swings of silence more than it lost on the roundabouts of ideas. If men were born dumb, there would be no total wars, fewer private quarrels and a vast increase in dignity and peace in human life. But life would be duller on Olympus. ...

... the opening of the OFFENSIVE IN LIBYA first Pictures from the Desert Battlefield Showing the Opening Stages of the Campaign and the Weather which Accompanied It When the moment came to open the offensive in Libya, quite suddenly the weather took a hand. For two days heavy rains fell, mainly in the coastal strip to the north camps, tank traps and ditches, and whole areas of the desert were ...

... A DECLINE in PANZERS? How German Tank Losses in Russia and Elsewhere May Affect the Course of the War THE most important military news for some time was sent from Moscow the other day, when it was stated that sixteen out of nineteen German Panzer divisions fighting in Russia had suffered appreciable casualties, nine of them experiencing considerable losses in men and materials. Taken in ...

... A WAR NEWSLETTER-No. 118 x, New Oxford Street, W.C.i Grounds for Satisfaction. --In these dark days of winter and the war, we have some solid grounds of comfort. It is hard pounding, gentlemen, and we shall continue to get some nasty jolts and setbacks all along the line at sea, in the air and on land, from Murmansk to Benghazi, and thence to Dover, and perhaps across the oceans to Hong Kong ...

... GREAT AIR JOURNEYS THAT STEER THE WAR The Development of the Long-distance Aeroplane has Made Possible Many Diplomatic Contacts and Movements in All Parts of the Globe. Some of the Journeys Already Achieved During the War are Here Described By FERDINAND TUOHY ONE day in the winter of 1870-71 the Prussians on Mt. Valérian overlooking besieged Paris were flabbergasted to see a balloon rise from ...

... 'Phe recent loss of the Ark Royal has once -L again drawn attention to the aircraft- carriers. Since the outbreak of the present war we have lost three of these vessels Ark Royal, in the Western Mediterranean, Courageous, tor pedoed in September 1939, and Glorious f sunk off North Norway in June 1940. Despite these grievous losses, the aircraft-carrier force is as strong as ever it was. There ...

... The map on the left is a key to the larger drawing of Sebastopoi repro duced above. It shows the position of the city on the spur of land projecting into the southern side of the Bay of Sebastopoi. The main railway station lies to the south this connected the city with Perekop, and then across the Isthmus with the Russian mainland. The town harbour is officially known as Meridian Bay and it is ...

... I AN ANTI-TANK WEAPON IN LIBYA^fc g| A Deadly British Device Used to Destroy Enemy Tanks in the Western Desert, Now First Revealed by the Cinematograph Camera i J The series of pictures reproduced here are from a cinema film taken 8Hj|: J by an operator of the Military History and Information Section of J the Australian Imperial Forces. They show one of the deadly British J anti-tank weapons ...