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...Hogue (1692). Since then four other masters of bulging European powers have forced a showdown on that rule. Under Nelson at Aboukir Bay in 1798 and at Trafalgar in 1805 Britain's fleet crushed Napoleon's dream of making France an overseas power. Under Jellicoe at Jutland in 1916 Britain's fleet hurled back the challenge of Wilhelm II. Under Sir Dudley Pound Britain's fleet faced last week the challenge of Adolf Hitler...
...crews grinned and pummeled each other as they stripped, washed down with antiseptic and put on clean uniforms (to avoid infection if wounded), before going to battle stations, as the fleet put to sea for battle. If they expected another full-dress performance like Jutland, they reckoned without Hitler's strategy. He had no hope of winning in a concentrated battle between capital ships. His plan was so far as possible to avoid battle at sea, to divide his fleet into a number of small squadrons and scatter them as protection for numerous parties at strategic points along...
...line. She took part in the bombardment of Bomarsund Fortress in the Aland Islands (then Russian, now Finnish) in 1854 ("Crimean" War). Smallpox killed more British sailors there than did Russian cannon, so the British left. Ajax No. 7 was a sister of the Iron Duke. She served at Jutland, and was scrapped under the Washington Treaty...
...Cabell has wandered far afield since he bade farewell to Poictesme. He has explored the land of dreams, Renaissance Italy and now Jutland of the saga-time. But the new climes have not been, on the whole, congenial. For a writer of Mr. Cabell's peculiar gifts, the world of his own imagining was the most comfortable. Certainly his attempt to restore a world and a story which have been clouded over by Shakespeare's play makes neither sense nor a good novel. He may say of Poictesme, as Touchstone once said, "When I I was at home...
HAMLET HAD AN UNCLE-Branch Cabell-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Author Cabell's Hamlet is the purported original of Shakespeare's, as found in assorted Viking sagas. Like the Melancholy Dane, the Viking of Jutland poses as insane (only more so), murders his stepfather. But the Viking Hamlet was big, blond and extrovert. He did not see his father's ghost. He killed not only his stepfather, but all his stepfather's courtiers. He married a guileless English princess, abandoned her for a bloodthirsty, hawknosed hank of hair, thereby starting a sequence of murders which ends only...