The autumn number of "The Cloister," the magazine of the Cathedral School for Boys, has just reached this ellice and a most inter esting publication it is. No only does it dea with the activities of the school, naturally eur~ {alled by reason of the hostilities, but actually endeavours to deal with the latter as well, in bright and entertaining fashion. For example an article entitled "the Cathedral School Torment" commences with the following:
Monday, August the Oth, was a fateful day in the history of Shang! rhed the bogin= hing of a chain of lon of certain Lieutenant 1390 Ohyama and companion Seaman Yoro, Saito the vicinity of the Hungiao Aerodrome. Thes their unwelcome viol to the previous occasions, but on his particular Monday the patience "of the Chinese. sentey apparently reached lis breaking point, for he drilled the gallant Lieutenant and his Unforiunate companion as full o¢ holes as the proverbial eullender. Tins friendly gesture Gaused a tremendous Mutter in. the Nipponese dovecotes, which, in the shape of some thirty oF forty men-of-war, happened to find themselves, for some unknown reason, floating at the mouth of the Yangtze. "Coo," they said, "what have we done that our friendly overtures should treated in this knavish" fashion?" And atralghtway they decreed that in future the une fortunate John Chinaman should cease to move about. the earth on his. pedal extremities, but 'Should "adopt a position that must. Inevitably Feault' fu housemala's knee.
The flattery- contained in this very obvious imitation of a certain feature of this journal is highly gratifying and is at the same time re~ ciprocated. The experiences of some of boys arising out of the crisis are not only very Interesting, but in some cases, excellently writ ten, while one young man very adequately describes the wreck of the s Kwangchow dur ing the typhoon at Hongkong, and rounds off fa'fine piece of work with a creditable sketch,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.