19 JUNE 1953, page 24

• Anglican Period Piece

CLAUDE BLAGDEN, the author of these delightful memoirs, was born in 1874 and brought up in a country parsonage in Buckinghamshire. He was sent to Bradfield—for which to the end......

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Such Is The Soldier

The Chronicle of Private Henry Metcalfe. Edited by Lieut.-General Sir Francis Tuker. (Cassell. 10s. 6d.) THE vices and the virtues of the ordinary man are displayed in the most......

Fiction

Honour the Shrhie. By Francis Clifford. (Cape. 12s. 6d.) Videhi. By C. L. Holden. (Macmillan. 15s.) Honour the Shrine, which describes an episode of war in Burma, is a first......