19 DECEMBER 1952, Page 5

The translation of Low from the Daily Herald to the

Manchester Guardian is very much to be welcomed, for during the three years he has served the Labour paper this talented cartoonist has been virtually in eclipse. It is all very strange. While he was on the Evening Standard his cartoons were the talk of the town—of at least two towns, indeed, for in those days the Manchester Guardian already had an arrangement by which it was free to piublish them the morning after. He had immense range, a most attractive impudence (usually at the expense of his employer, Lord Beaverbrook) and that incisive touch without which a cartoonist had better drop his brush or his pencil altogether. But from the moment he joined the Daily Herald virtue went out of him. * * * *