31 OCTOBER 1947, Page 5

I have just been reading a very creditable little poem

on Malta by an author aged fourteen. I find myself concurring in all his sentiments, but particularly in those enshrined in one quatrain: "For though the heart can help a lot, And sympathy is sweet, One needs, when darkest clouds The strength of beer and meat."

Crede experto ? jANUS.

appal,