+ Ath p226 F 13 ’20 80w Booklist 16:340 Jl ’20 + Dial 69:212 Ag ’20 50w + Ind 103:185 Ag 14 ’20 40w
“Anyone who expects Sir Douglas Brownrigg’s ‘Indiscretions of the naval censor’ to be indiscreet will be disappointed. Where the Admiral does become interesting is in his intimate account of life at that ramshackle building known as the British admiralty.”
+ − Nation 111:51 Jl 10 ’20 260w
“The grave question of the proper relation to be observed in time of war between the truth, the state, the public, and the press scarcely obtrudes its chilly presence into the warm stream of anecdote which courses through these pages.”
+ − Nation [London] 26:868 Mr 20 ’20 1100w
“The book is breezily written and as entertaining as it is genuinely informative.”
+ Review 3:322 O 13 ’20 440w + R Of Rs 61:670 Je ’20 100w
“Admiral Brownrigg has command of a straightforward, telling style. His book is full of humour, good spirits, and the kind of information which only he is in a position to impart.”
+ Sat R 129:334 Ap 3 ’20 1150w Spec 124:181 F 7 ’20 300w Yale R n s 10:437 Ja ’21 220w
BRUNNER, MRS ETHEL (HOUSTON). Celia and her friends. *$1.25 Macmillan