28 MARCH 1941, page 11

Poor Bird ! "

POOR bird! No hands, no fingers thine ; Light, feathered, coloured wings Instead. But where are mine? Poor silent fish! No hands, no spindly legs, no toes ; But fins and a tail......

Art

War Paintings at the National Gallery THE English are a nation of illustrators, a fact to which the last three generations of art-critics never succeeded in reconciling......

Hark !

My little Charles is afraid of the dark ; Stares at the window, stiff and stark ; Sits up in bed, with tousled head, White as chalk, scarce able to talk : " Listen ! . . ." he......

The Cinema

„spare a Copper." At the New Gallery—" The Ghost Train." At the Gaumont I coal) not, in my most charitable mood (even remembering that they are both war-time productions),......