TEN DAYS OFF
By George Dunn The author of Ten Days Off (Cape, 7s. 6d.) is a soldier by profession, but a writer by nature, and an account of barracks life by him slottld be illumin- ating; but in the meanwhile we must be content with the rather exiguo as material of the present book in which he describes how he spent ten days' leave. Mounted on an old motor-bike he set off towards the south coast, visiting friends and just letting things happen. Nothing extra- ordinary happened, and nothing can be so boring as another man's holiday, but because Mr. Dunn can use his eyes and 'his pen, we read on with the pleasure that good company always gives. His descriptions of such commonplace ex- periences as driving along a country road in summer, bathing in the sea, chatting to a chance acquaintance on the beach, visiting a motor works, sleeping in a tent on a wet night, hold our attention, -not by their novelty; but -by their
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