23 JULY 1954, page 16

Burns Englished

have only just received a copy of your issue of June 18 and the report of your Competition No. 224 headed Rabble Burns Transmogrified '—and very amusing and instructive the......

Snakes Alive Was Much Interested In Sir Compton...

of natural wonders which he had seen, in the issue of June 11, particularly the last one about the adder either swallowing her young or at least pick- ing them up in her mouth......

The Guinea Pig

SIR, - 4 wonder if the comparative failure of the Fleming scheme is such a pity as James Nowell thinks '? From the point of view of the survival of the public schools, no doubt......