24 FEBRUARY 1950, page 9

Cheap And Instructive

By N. K. BOOT T HERE was somf thing gluttonous about the capacity of our ancestors to absorb the printed word. At the age of four William Morris was "deep in the Waverley Novels......

The King's Scholarship

By C. ROMANNE-JAMES . S OMEWHERE below a bell struck—the signal that the day's work was ended. Perspiring with the effort of trying to master an exercise in English, Nai Sai......