... A STORY of the SEAMEN of BRITAIN And other Books of the Week-- in Fiction and Thrillers --By Vernon Fane IT is surprising that so com paratively few naval his torians have concerned them selves about the British seaman. Of the Navy and its battles there have been books without end; but of the men who sailed its ships, and fought them, there have been few outside the realms of (usually bad) ...

... By Horace Horsnell Lottie Dundass Vaudeville WAS Lottie Dundass mad? This question, which, as applied to Hamlet, has teased generations of amateur alienists, might have been answered in the confident affirma tive within five minutes of her first appearance. For while Hamlet was mad only nor'-nor'-west, Lottie boxed the compass good and hard. She was young and pretty, self-centred and a ...

... . By C. A. LEJEUNE. IN the long run, your verdict on MISSION TO MOSCOW (Warners and Regal) will almost certainly be decided by your political views or the extent of your in formation regarding pre-war European affairs, neither of which is the province of these notes. The controversy surrounding the piece as propaganda is not my affair either, and 1 leave others to decide wnetner tne mm is, ...

... . By L. P. HARTLEY. RIDE ON, STRANGER is a novel about urban life in Aus tralia in the years just before the war. Shannon Hicks was her parents' fourth daughter; she was born on Monday, a washing-day, and the news of her birth gave her father an attack of indigestion. Any child was bad enough, but a boy would have been prefer able, so rather wistfully they gave her a name that would have ...