5 MAY 1939, page 13

Poem

IN this quiet room, at this quiet time In anxious Europe, things come casually To our sensation. The innocent light hangs Over the roadway, still the hedge fulfils Its civil......

Clarence

By H. R. JUKES A CTUALLY, I suppose, Clarence might even have been Long John Silver's parrot—Cap'n Flint under a more respectable name. They live to a great age, I believe, and......