3 AUGUST 1956, Page 27

READERS of the Spectator first encountered the enigmatic Strix when

he succeeded Janus as the author of 'A Spectator's Note- book.' Now they know him well as the weekly essayist never at a loss either for subject or for words to adorn it. Rupert Hart-Davis has published, at 12s. 6d., a selection from his writings in the Spectator under the entirely characteristic title of My Aunt's Rhinoceros. •Now he stands revealed as Peter Fleming, whose connection with the Spectator is, of course, longer than th t of Strix.