16 MAY 1952, page 9

A Picture Of China [extracts From A Letter From A

Chinese writer to an English friend.] I CAME here to find work, but it was not possible for me to escape from my responsibilities to my country and my people, so when I later......

Epitaph On An Agnostic

Here lies Sam Smith, who never could make out Whether the world-to-come was all illusion ; A motor bus resolved his honest doubt And brought him to a definite conclusion. M. D.......

The Beasts Of The Field

By C. K. ALLEN, Q.C. T HE animal kingdom, to which so many of my readers belong (as G. K. Chesterton nearly wrote), is a very powerful realm in Britain. There is probably no......