14 SEPTEMBER 1918, page 15

The Secret Of The Navy.*

OARLYLB thought that Shakespeare was our greatest possession. Shakespeare, who never thought about himself or his fame, who greatly appreciated sailors and gave us the phrase a......

Readable Novels.—hie Alien Enemy. By E. M. Forbes. (john...

68.)—A novel concerned with the first days of the war. The most exciting chapters are those describing the historic hours which ended at midnight on August 4th, 1914.—The Test.......

Fiction.

THE ANCHOR.* MR. SADLER gives us in his new novel a minute and mordant study of a very modern young man, intensely self-conscious and highly self-critical, nervous to the verge......

"thomasina Atkins-"•

VERY entertaining are these letters by " Thomasina Atkins," private in the W.A.A.C. on active service. " Thomasina " joined up in October,. 1917, and was sent to France in the......