14 MARCH 1952, page 10

Apple Logs Burning

Consumed is the knuckle bud, the petals upturned like shells, The saw-edged, puckered leaf, and the fruit's gold. From the gnarled branch uncurls a frond of flame, Loose flowers......

The New Kailyard

By IAN FINLAY A MILAN newspaper has warned the poets of the Scots Renaissance—under banner headlines—against using a dialect which gives them only a parochial appeal. No doubt......

Public Worship Ii

By SIR HENRY SELF, K.C.B. * D ISCUSSION of possible forms and limits for experimen- tal variations to be tried out in Church worship, if and when the Roport of the Church......