The Curia

Smith. This play at one part had the whole gathering rocking with laughter so much that there was an "interval" of two or three minutes before speaking was resumed.

It was planned to have an outside visit near the end of term, but the rush and bustle of end of term activities cut this short. Next term, no doubt, the long awaited visit will take place.

THE LIBRARY

Librarian: MR. L. BURGESS. Library Monitors: P. G. TAYLOR, J. C. M. HERRING, D. C. HOLMES, J. H. BAINES, J. CROSSLEY, A. M. MARSH, R. D. WELCH, J. M. WELSH.

In the absence of Mr. Burgess there have been few additions to the Library this term. We wish, however, to express here our thanks to John Rodgers, IM.P., O.P., who has kindly sent us a copy of "Selected Poems of Thomas Gray" which he has recently had printed by the Grey Walls Press in the Crown Classics series. Mr. Rodgers has also written the introduction.

Other additions :-

The Oxford History of England. The Thirteenth Century—Sir Maurice

Powicke. The Oxford Junior Encyclopedia. Vol. V. (Great Lives). The Ascent of Everest—Col. Sir John Hunt.

MIDDLE SCHOOL LIBRARY

To encourage boys in their reading a library was started this term consisting mainly of the more popular modern fiction and non-fiction not to be found on the shelves of the School Library. There is, however, some deliberate overlapping in the hope that this will lead boys to realise what there is in the School Library. The books are kept in a store off a form-room in the new buildings, and the library is open after morning school on four days a week. The first books were withdrawn on 19th October, when the library was opened to the IVth forms; a little later it was extended to the Vths and the Shells. In two months there were over 400 withdrawals, and so the books have evidently been appreciated by the School.

At the moment there are 125 volumes, 5'2 of these being non-fiction, and 73 fiction. Among books in the non-fiction section may be mentioned "Canada Ride", "Man-Eaters of Kumaon", "The KonTiki Expedition", "South Latitude", "Gipsy of the Horn", "Upon that Mountain", "The Adventures of a Mountaineer", "The Wooden Horse", "The Big Show", "The Dam Busters", "No Picnic on Mt. Kenya", "A Pattern of Islands".