4 DECEMBER 1920, Page 24

British Secret Service during the Great War. By Nicholas Everitt.

(Hutchinson. ma. net.)—Mr. Everitt devotes about half of this book to an account of his adventures as a secret service agent in Scandinavia during the war. The other half is mainly criticism of the Government for their inefficiency, especially in regard to the "sham blockade" and to inter- departmental jealousies. Mr. Everitt's adventures are enter- taining, but the novelist always does this sort of thing better because he has no need for reticence and can bring the story to a dramatic climax. Mr. Everitt tantalizes us by leaving the story half-told.