18 MARCH 1949, page 24

Shaw On Himself

Sixteen Self Sketches. By Bernard Shaw. (Constable. 7s. 6d.) MIL SHAW was a late starter as a public figure, but he is such a strong finisher that he seems always to have been......

Caterpillars

IT was Jan Swammerdam (1637-1680), the Dutchman, who, in 1669, offered the first logical account of the transformations of insects and other animals. In his General Natural......