... Looking Ahead-- to th e B o on t int o II r Ferdinand Tuoln SOMEBODY told me I needed another hobby, so I've started collecting boons. The idea came one grey day as I read of another Benign Thing To Come. Of course! Now was the proper season, the latter part of wartime, that intent looking-ahead period. One could scarcely help seeing boons ahead. My opening entry chanced to be Traverse Machine ...

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... BUBBLE and SQUEAK YOU know, dear, said she, love is a wonderful thing. I've just read an article here in this paper all about a man who reached the age of forty without learning to read and write. Then he fell in love with a woman, and for her sake he made a scholar of himself in two years. That 's nothing, replied her husband. I knew a man who was a profound scholar at forty. Then he met ...

... ROW TO H fiV A FRIEND Paul Halt MR. PATRICK O'DONOVAN has been writing crossly to The Observer, complaining about the behaviour of British Embassies in far- flung lands. He says they are frequently suspicious of visiting foreign correspondents, even con temptuous, and that they tend to regard them selves as more important than the British public itself. For this, and for other sins hinted at ...

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... It II! II LI! a\d lSOLEAK Stories from Everywhere A SAILOR went dashing down the quayside to a boat just as she was pulling out. The boat had moved off three or four yards, and he jumped and fell, hitting the deck with the back of his head. for several minutes he lay stunned. When he came to, the boat was several hundred yards from the shore. He looked back, blinked a time or two, and shouted: ...

... JrTtc Freda Hr'ucc Fnvkhart Hollywood at any rate has no established style even remotely analagous to the elegant artificiality in which Oscar Wilde set his epigrams. Even if properly delivered, his torrents of verbal wit might well overwhelm most films. Yet although little is left but the creaking sentimental plots which Wilde oversowed with his sparkles, the delusion obstinately persists ...

... in I^Vvis Bohemian Pleasures Now, in the tiny, lamplit garden, one enjoys one's favourite Russian dishes No wonder that, in bygone days, people either left Paris after the Grand Prix, or hid themselves behind closed shutters if they were unable to get away. For this is the time of year when out-of-town friends-- not forgetting the friends-of-friends, armed with letters-- are passing through ...

... WARRIOR WARRLERS EMMWOOD'S m. 13) This well-upholstered bird, in its heedless imitations of St. Simeon Stylites, often finds itself in positions of extreme delicacy ADULT MALE General colour above greeny -fulvous, shading to pink as the bird nears the ground or crimson when tree tumbling bears a silken, umbrella-like crest which assists the bird in flight when open and even more so when not ...

... D. B. Wyndham Lewis UNDOUBTEDLY the debasement of the English tongue proceeds apace, thanks to Hollywood, the BBC, and other cultural influences, as a bitter chap was recently crying. The flabby-genteel use of the word never theless by Times leader-writers is one obvious example he failed to quote. To appreciate the vital force of nevertheless one may recall the incident at the Scots village ...