... -- I DO not know a better book than Joy Homer's Dawn Watch in China (Collins, 12s. 6d.). Here was a girl who spent fourteen months not only touring the Chinese provinces, but also the Japanese areas. She travelled over all except three of the provinces, covered 1,200 miles on a truck, lived in caves, was in numerous air raids, visited the front line trenches, met generals and coolies alike, ...

... : Reviewed by Noel Thompson TWO books this month have their setting for the most part on board ship. The first is Life Boat by Signe Toksvig (Faber and Faber, 7s. 6d.), and a very unusual book this is. The plot is that of the American wife of a German husband on their way back to Germany. The husband's former governess is on board, now a missionary, and terribly wounded about the face by the ...