24 OCTOBER 1941, page 20

Fiction

MR. PHILIP TOYNBEE'S second novel A School in Private gives a detailed account of a full term in what might be described as a fairly average type of English prep. school. Mr.......

Over Welsh Hills. By F. S. Smythe. (black. 12s. 6d.)

Over Welsh Hills is uniform with Mr. Smythe's Peaks and Valleys and other quarto volumes in which the text is subsidiary to the illustration. The photographs in the present......

Mr. Smythe Is One Of The Few English Mountaineers. Besides

Whymper who have earned their living directly or indirectly through their climbing. Whymper was an engraver ; Mr. Smythe is a writer and a photographer, and there are periods......

Shorter Notices

War in the Air. By David Garnett. (Chatto and Windus. 7s. 6d. MR. GaaNErr's book is not the hastily compiled record of heroics in the air which any volume with the title of his......

The Author Of This Short Book Was A Pilot In

No. 1 Squadron, which was one of the two original Hurricane Squadrons of the Air Component in France. The book is based on a diary which he kept from September, 1 939, to June,......

So Few. The Immortal Record Of The Royal Air Force.

By David Masters. (Eyre and Spottiswoode. 6s.) "No trouble has been spared," writes Mr. Masters in his fore- word, " to ensure the accuracy of these, pages. . . . It may be......