12 MARCH 1943, Page 22

Targets. By Sagittarius. (Jonathan Cape. is.) IT is perhaps not

surprising that satire does no flourish in an age when the rapier has given place to the rubber truncheon, and her fans must therefore be all the more grateful to Sagittarius for the verses in which she gallantly upholds the tradition. They will welcome old favourites in this collection such as ThreeWomen, Onward Comparatively Christian Soldiers, No Confirmaticm, The New Boy, which may all be recommended as introductions to those who do not already look forward to her targets for the week. The barbed shafts should never miss at least an inner from any failure to "Make the left arm always that by which you change the elevation," which is, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, a first principle of archery.