29 AUGUST 1947, page 26

A Task Completed

The Victory Campaign. By," Strategicus." (Faber and Faber. 12s. 6d.) AN unavoidable austerity of peace is that we can no longer enjoy in these columns the lucid analyses of the......

_ Fiction

FOR his new book Mr. Charles Morgan has taken the most serious theme it is possible for a novelist to handle; that of the integrity of the self and the tension of the opposition......

England's Beaches

Mew a family man (and woman) returning exhausted from the annual battle of the beaches must wonder how the English came to develop the seaside habit. Mr. Marsden suplies the......