20 AUGUST 1927, page 21

An Expert Yachtsman

Mn. MAcIvEn, an amateur who holds a yachtmaster's "ticket" and has always taken command of his own vessels, has deliberately or accidentally rung the changes on his choice of......

An Old Etonian

Fewness of My Days. By Lord Braye. (Sands. 18s.) THE same emotion has .prompted Lord Brayc to write of himself, he tells us, as prompts a schoolboy to carve his name upon the......

The Sensitive Plant

HERE is a book which is beyond the art and science of a critic. It is a heart-searing document, written in heightened moments by a rare creature inspired by genius and disease......