23 JULY 1937, page 13

Marginal Comments

By ROSE MACAULAY IN this rather sad world, to be offered a drink is some- 1. thing, and when I open a letter and see in it the glad word symposium, I own that I am at first......

An Englishman

By RUPERT CROFT-COOKE IT was when I was on my way to Buenos Aires for the first time, thirteen years ago, to teach in an English school, that I met the finest example in my......

The Dead Jay

A WITLESS, pert, bedizened fop, Man mocks, resembles you ; But, now and then, a prince of such Proves rascal through and through. And sorrowing simple birds agree It is his......