Geography. Africa—L. S. Suggate. Canada—The Golden Hinge—Leslie Roberts. A Geography of Commodities—H. Alnwick.
English. The Age of Chaucer—edited by Boris Ford. Comic Characters of Shakespeare—John Palmer. An Approach to Shakespeare—D. A. Traversi.
Religion. The Growth of The World Church—Ernest A. Payne. Christianity—Edwin Bevan. A History of the Modern Church.
T.C. —Chilman's work in the Library has been most useful. He continued activities in the holidays and it was a pleasure to find everything in apple-pie order on our return to School this term. We thank him for this very helpful extra work. A.D.H. NOTE
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EASTER TOUR TO THE CONTINENT This year a School party, 39 strong including staff, visited Innsbruck, the dates being left as late as possible in the hope of securing good weather—a hope that was fully justified in the event. The outward journey was happily devoid of incident. There was snow and sleet all the way across Switzerland, and into Austria. Indeed, by the time we reached the Arlberg tunnel the snow was at least four feet deep, but on the eastward side conditions were much better. We reached Innsbruck in time for a late lunch, and spent the afternoon exploring the town. The weather was still overcast, and the town was not at its best, so that many of us got a first impression of shabbiness, which was largely dispelled when, on later days, the sun and clear skies revealed the attraction of the streets and their setting. Next morning we continued to explore the town, and visited the celebrated monument to Maximilian, with his twenty-eight ancestors and models of knightly virtue. Of these King Arthur—actually the work of Albrecht Diirer in Nuremberg—stood out, we feel, because, if he discarded armour for tweeds, he would be the prototype of the English country gentleman. This was in sharp contrast to the hawknosed, hang-dog features of the Hapsburgs. In the afternoon we walked by Berg Isel through the pine woods to Igls. On the return some of us looked in at the Abbey Church of the Premonstratensian Abbey at Wilten, now restored after serious bomb damage. The heavy black marble side chapels were perhaps too massive to please entirely, but the whole is certainly a very fine piece of restoration. The parish church nearby was also visited by one or two; it is rococo of the purest style and entirely charming. It is a pity that so many missed it. 23
