29 JANUARY 1943, page 20

Shorter Notices The Story Of The Rise Of British Sea

power under the Elizabethans has been told by many writers from Froude to Julian Corbett, Professor Taylor, Dr. Williamson and others who have traced and described the many......

Tins Is A Very Unusual And Superior Travel Book. It

deals with that part of French Indo-China which is predominantly of Anna- mese speech, i.e., Tongking 1 Annam proper, and Cochin-China, and the author, who has anthropological......

Fiction

Envy My Simplicity. By Reyner Barton. (Chapman and Hall. 8s. 6d., Mr. Bowling Buys a Newspaper. By Donald Henderson. (Constable 8s. 6d.) Of Mingled Being. By L. 1. Shorter.......

A Dictionary Of Abbreviations. By Eric Partridge. (allen...

7s. 6d.) THE abbreviations in use before the present war were numerous and puzzling enough to exhaust the average memory, but they. have since multiplied to such vast extent......