21 NOVEMBER 1952, Page 7

It is not often that a lecturer on racial relations

enlivens his discourse with as brilliant a jeu d'esprit as the translation into rhyming Latin of the " young lady of Riga " Limerick which Professor T. J. Haarhoff introduced into his Burge Lec- ture on Wednesday. It ran:

Puella Rigensis ridebat Quarta tigris in tergo vehebat; Externa projecta, Interna revecta; Risusque cum tigre manebat.

Whether this is Professor Haarhoff's own handiwork I don't know, but since he holds the chair of classics in the University of Witwatersrand I assume that it is.

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