4 FEBRUARY 1944, page 14

R.a.f. Origins

The Birth of the Royal Air Force. By Air Commodore J. A. Chamier, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O. (Pitman. is.) THE Royal Air Force, during these winter months, is preparing for......

Half-dreamed Calamity

Splendours and Miseries. By Sacheverell Sitwell. (Faber and Faber. 1:88.) OF the discoveries in which this century has proved all too fecund, none I fancy, not even flight, has......

Parochial Criticism

Man and Literature. By Norman Nicholson. (S.C.M. Press. ros. 6d.) THE proposition advanced by Mr. Nicholson in this little thesis with the big title is this : that twentieth......