6 DECEMBER 1930, Page 50

General Crozier's Impressions and Recollections (Werner Laurie, 215.) is not

written " at the top of his voice," as was his previous book, A Brass Hat in No Man's Land, and falls into the category of those biographies of soldiers and actors whose lives seem crowded with incidents which loomed large at the time, but now appear of much less importance. Auto- biography is not an easy medium of expression : when the author relates swiftly moving incidents such as the part he played in the Ulster Volunteer Force in 1914 he arrests the reader's interest ; but such periods are joined together by " flats " that snake somewhat dreary reading. A more thorough revision and rewriting would have made this a notable book for there are passages in it of great power.