... B A. Croxton Smith MAN has always toyed with the idea of a Utopia in which the lion should he down with the lamb and the sword be turned into a ploughshare. That the lion should lie down with the lamb is sometimes a matter of education. Take a cub of one of the big cats and rear him with a lamb, the two would probably grow up into good friends, for a time at any rate. These incongruous ...

... Trustworthy Mrs. D I know it was my husband's intention that the boys should benefit from my legacy when they come of age. It's not a great sum as you know, only £1,000, and the important thing is that it should not diminish. Executor Precisely. We must find an investment that is safe and profitable. You say you have the full quota of Savings Certificates Mrs. D Very nearly, and the boys have ...

... WE publish in another page an appeal for a new outlook on agriculture and for the leadership and organisation which it must have. The writer of the article sees the need for co-operation between the leaders of certain interests, and visualises, in effect, a Round Table Conference between them. He has, how ever, left a blank place at the Conference table. It is an astonishing thing that, even ...

... THE CRA WLEY AND HORSHAM are carrying on this season, and Mrs. H. G. Gregson is again Acting Master for the Com mittee. These pictures were taken at a recent meet at Cowfold. HOUNDS MOVING OFF, with C. Denton, the huntsman, on the left. Denton has been huntsman since 1928 and used to hunt the dog pack twice a week when four meets were held. HOUNDS CASTING FOR SCENT AT THE FIRST COVER. ...

... A Great Game at Richmond All-Blacks Just Fail in Titanic Struggle IN the first half the All-Blacks were never in Rosslyn Park's 25; in the second half they were seldom out of it. That, in a nutshell, is the story of the memorable match at Richmond in which the New Zealand Expedi tionary Force, playing their first representative game of the season, came within an ace of beating Rosslyn Park ...

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... The Lady in Question Those who enjoyed that excellent French film, Gribouille, will like to compare with it the American version, in which Brian Aherne (inset above) and Rita Hayworth (with Glenn Ford in the larger picture) appear in the roles previously (and superbly) played by Raimu and Michele Morgan. The story, as many will remember, is about the little broprietor of a bicycle shop who is ...

... RARR STROUD LIMITED Lf y 1 OCl I> A It S arc the eyes of our fighting men on land, on the sea, and in the air. Every binocular we can make must be supplied on official orders for the fighting forces. We regret therefore that in the meantime we cannot accept civ ilian orders. W hen victory conies we shall be ready to meet the civilian demand for binoculars of the highest quality. Until then, ...

... a war newsletter-No. 65 32-34, St, Bride Street, E.C.4 AXIS AND ACTUALITY An Axis is an imaginary line about which a body rotates, or by revolution about which a plane is conceived as generating a solid sphere. In so far as I comprehend this definition, it seems an adequate description of Hitler's conception. The only non-imaginary feature of Hitler's axis is that it creaks. I he Italian ...

... BEFORE THE ATTACK ON TARANTO It will be remembered that before the actual attack on the Italian Navy by torpedo-dropping aircraft, bombers of the Fleet Air Arm flew over the harbour and concentrated on the battleships and cruisers before making way for the torpedo-carrying Swordfish, to whom they then acted as fighter escorts. Here is the scene on the deck of an aircraft-carrier in the ...

... The ITALIAN ATTACK on BRITAIN AIR COMMENTARY BY CHARLES G. GREY (Founder of The Aeroplane A Few l\[otes on Italy's Part in the Present War With Some Aftenhoughts on the Attack on Coventry And a j\[ote on Sir R. Brooke'Pobham's Far East Command WHAT can have induced the German Command in France to let that Italian formation come over to England The Germans must have known that such a voyage was ...

... By Ashley Courtenay I HAVE written of White Horses before. That little Trust House, near Hertford, the White Horse at Hertingfordbury, that Dickensian Inn--also the Great White Horse at Ipswich. Then there is that delight ful little and very old White Horse at Eaton Socon on the Great North Road --presided over by Mrs. Langtrey. And now I have found two more White Horses Gray's White Horse at ...