7 SEPTEMBER 1929, page 7

In Praise Of "tauchnitz "

V OLUME 4867 of the . Tauchnitz Edition (Orlando, by Vir g inia Woolf) is on my k n ee in a crowded Per- sonenzug puffin g its way throu g h the mountains of Bohemia. For hours......

A Hundred Years Ago—naval Routine.

Owing to his previous sea experience Bechervaise joined as a petty officer. His pay, according to a contemporary Navy List, would have been £2 12s. a month, and his rations......