... Fox populi J\ ?dble Written and Illustrated by R. S. Sherriffs. THE first time Reynard V. Fox, M.P., was offered an intro duction to Lord Lion he was overcome with shyness and fainted on the carpet. The second time he wasn't so shy, but then he wasn't noticed either. But the third time he was noticed, and the fourth time he was noticed quite kindly and was allowed to shake a paw. Not long ...

... CHRISTOPHER FRY loves words. He holds them up for examination. He scatters them in glittering largesse. He juggles with them. He makes fifty words serve where most dramatists would use five. And the result, in his approxi mately mediæval comedy at the Globe, is a play for fellow word- fanciers if not for all playgoers. The trouble is the convention that any piece for the theatre should have a ...

... LOOKING at the new Disney cartoon, Fun and Fancy Free (New Gallery), I felt tempted to adapt Browning:-- What 's become of Disney Since he gave us all the slip? This is not the Disney of Snow White and Pinocchio, of Bambi and Fantasia. This is a rather slapdash double, who has kept on turning up lately in exchange for the old Walt the faulty operator who perpetrated Victory Through Air ...

... Revolutions are Circular n fable Written and Illustrated by R. S. Sherriffs. DLOOD is cheap. Nearly everybody has plenty of it. Thus, it is the lubricant of revolution. In Oberonia the machinery of revolution had worked well. Oberonia was now the Federation of Pluto-Communist State-holdings. But the F.P.C.S. still lacked one thing, a President. A supreme Commoner. Ottakar, the Principal ...

... IS THERE A DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE Not necessarily a Doctor of Medicine, but one skilled in drawing, with a Degree in Humour. If so, we want his prescription for a full-page chuckle to appear in each issue of The Sketch. In the past Dr. Studdy did it with his Bonzo, and Drs. Lawson Wood and Frank Reynolds with Gran'pop and the Bristle woods. There MUST be a new Doctor who can match these famous ...

... r AT present I am, and surprisingly, twins. On the right, Peter, aged fifteen; on the left, Wendy, some minutes younger. They are back for Christmas, and the theatre guide waves like a banner. The town is theirs to sack. What must they see? Peter, as a rule, speaks for both-- with some minor interruption. They want a pantomime or two, of course and not merely for sentimental reasons. Your ...