17 APRIL 1953, page 22

Tales Of The Sea

FREDERICK MARRYAT first went to sea at the age of fourteen in 1806. To have missed the last great action between sailing ships by a twelve- month must have been one of his chief......

Battles Long Ago

ANYONE believing that England just before the First World War was a highly civilised society, from whose gracious and gentle standards our own age has sadly declined, will find......

Stories Of Experience

THIS assembly of Sir Osbert Sitwell's short stories by no means con- tains the whole of his output in this kind. I miss the military cram- min g establishment and other deli g......