28 MAY 1954, Page 7

Three Monosyllables Missing

'Peterborough,' commenting in the Daily Telegraph on Lord Beaverbrook's 75th birthday, quoted from his newly published book, Don't Trust to Luck, three rules which Lord Beaverbrook believes a man, must observe if he wishes to Combine happiness with success; they are "to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly." Some acknowledgement Should, I feel, have been made to the Prophet Micah, from Whose sixth chapter the words are an extract, incomplete in ?fle rather important particular. " What " (asked Micah) cloth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love tnercy, and to walk humbly with thy God ? "