Waiting for Daylight, by Henry Major Tomlinson, is something between a diary and a volume of essays, where recollections of World War One war-time London jostle reflections on "Bookworms," on "Figureheads" and on "Ruskin," all written in a style of distinction and charm. Contents: In Ypres -- A raid night -- Islands -- Travel books -- Signs of spring -- Prose writing -- The modern mind -- Magazines -- The Marne -- Carlyle -- Holiday reading -- An autumn morning -- News from the front -- Authors and soldiers -- Waiting for daylight -- The nobodies -- Bookworms -- Sailor language -- Illusions -- Figure-heads -- Economics -- Old sunlight -- Ruskin -- The reward of virtue -- Great statesmen -- Joy -- The real thing -- Literary critics -- The south downs -- Kipling -- A Devon estuary -- Barbellion -- Breaking the spell.