24 FEBRUARY 1950, Page 5

* * * * Low has now been adorning the

Daily Herald's pages instead of the Evening Standards for three weeks. I wonder if he feels satisfied with the change. Low, of course, is always Low, and in his own field unrivalled, but there was something in the Low of January which seems somehow missing in the Low of. February. Perhaps it is the effect of drawing to a brief ; during a General Election a cartoonist's pencil must be at the service of his party. Oa the Evening Standard Low needed to be at no one's service and there was a gay insouciance, often an engaging impudence, about his drawing, a little beyond the reach of an artist constrained to toe the party line. It obviously suits Low best to be on a paper whose views he disagrees with.