IS THIS ART CRICKET?
Sta,—If I could persuade Mr. Harold Nicolson to accompany me to Lords to give cricket a last chance, I might be able to explain to him some of the finer points of the game, both orthodox and unorthodox. But I fear that were O'Reilly to turn a somersault before delivering the ball and Hammond to receive it in a prone position, I should be at a loss to account for such happenings. Mr. Nicolson would tell me that he need not come to Lords to see such a farce ; he could see this sort of thing at the pantomime.
But were I to accompany him to should no doubt be told that such Picasso's and Matisse's evolutions. similar explanation for the behaviour faithfully, the Victoria and Albert Museum, I antics represented only a phase in But would Mr. Nicolson accept a of O'Reilly and Hammond?—Yours Yardley Bank, Tonbridge. RAYMOND REISS.