31 MARCH 1944, page 18

Coun I Ry Life

A NEW and " blessed word," dedication, is coming into vogue. For some years altruistic land-owners have been dedicating their property to the nation. They can now dedicate their......

Amateur Sailor. By Nicholas Drew. (constable. 98.)

THERE are as many national characteristics in the English boy as in the grown man, and a desire to go to sea is one of the most prominent of them: The author of this......

English Story. Edited By Woodrow Wyatt. (collins. 75....

stories are enjoying a mild boom ; with the rush of war and scarcity of papa they are becoming more widely written and easier to publish. This is all to the good, but it has......

No Spaghetti For Breakfast. By Alfred Wagg And David Brown.

(Nicholson and Watson. los. 6d.) THIS curiously named book is about the campaigns in Sicily and Southern Italy. The suspicion aroused by its title is not altogether allayed by a......