17 APRIL 1953, page 24

Tales Of The Sea

FREDERICK MARRYAT first went to sea at the age of fourteen in 1806. To have missed the last great action between sailing ships by a twelve- month must have been one of his chief......

The Savoy . Operas Gilbert And Sullivan Opera. By Audrey...

(Rockliff. 25s.) THE withering contempt with which serious contemporary musicians in France wrote and spoke of the operetta and "light" opera must have astonished many English......

Changes In The Weald

The Weald. By S. W. Wooldridge and Frederick Goldring. (Collins. 25s.) No region of Southern England is more greatly loved than that which occupies the major part of the......