24 FEBRUARY 1939, page 28

The Condition Of The Navy

The Navy from Within. By Vice-Admiral K. G. B. Dewar. (Gollancz. I 5S .) ADMIRAL DEWAR'S story of his thirty-eight years' service in the Navy is not so -much an autobiography as......

Genius And Insanity

THE strange, rich beauty of Smart's Song to David, written while the author was supposed to be out of his mind and published in 1763, needs to be recalled as the preliminary to......