The wasp, as we mostly know him, is a bad-tempered and aggressive insect given to ruining picnic parties and stinging one on the nose when one's hands are full. Miss Cheeseman has studied the more pleasant species that flourish in warmer climates, and their ways of building houses for their offspring, laying up food for them, and so on, make a fascinating tale.
(London only)

7.0 M. E. CHAPTET, ' Life in a French Grammar School.'
S.B. from Newcastle
The educational system of France suffers - or gains, according to the view one takes - from the lack of an institution corresponding to the English public school. Instead, the French boy goes to a Lycee, and it is of the life he leads there that M. Chapiet , who is the head of a large school in Normandy, will talk tonight.
(Daventry only)