by Charles Dickens

This afternoon Mr. Stobart and Miss Somerville are to talk of one of the most dearly-loved of boyhood's classics of the past generation. James Fenimore Cooper was the first, the most authentic, and, from the literary point of view, incomparably the best of the long roll of novelists who have written of the noble Red Man of the American prairies and "The Last of the Mohicans" is his most famous work. There can be few middle-aged men whose blood will not thrill at the very mention of Hawk-eye, the scout, his inseparable companion Chingachgook, the Sagamore, and Uncas, the last of the Mohicans; and many a blameless father of a family will even now mutter imprecations as he thinks of the false villainy of Magua, Le Subtil, the dog of the Wyandots. Fenimore Cooper may, for all one knows, seem old-fashioned to the modern boy, but no characters were ever more real than these four, a generation ago.

IX her two preceding Talks. Miss Power has dealt with village life 700 years ago. and again 500 years ago, when already the village as a social unit was breaking up. To-day she comes on to Elizabeth's time. the dawn of modern England, an age in which we can trace the roots of many problems that we are still grappling with to-day. The growth of sheep-farming, instead of agriculture, had lessened the demand for rural labour. at the same time as the attraction of the towns became stronger ; and the dissolution of the monasteries, by taking away the only organization for relieving poverty, had led to a measure that gives sinister forebodings of a problem still unsolved : the first Poor Law was passed in 1601. It is of the village, then. in the era when it was ceasing to be a healthy social unit. and beginning to become more and more often either a survival or a problem, that Miss Power will speak to-day.

and WINIFRED MORGAN
(Soprano), MAUDE BELL (Violoncello)

by REGINALD FOORT , relayed from the New Gallery Kinema

FIRST GENERAL
NEWS BULLETIN

by REGINALD FOORT (Continued)

DR. MONCKTON COPEMAN is a particularly distinguished authority on matters relating to the public health. He has been Senior Medical Inspector to the Local Government Board, Lieutenant-Colonel in charge of the Hygiene Department, R.A.M. College, 1916-7, and lecturer and examiner to the Universities of London and Leeds, the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons.

The Sonatas of Mozart played through consecutively at this hour daily throughout the week

PROFESSOR MOTTRAM is Professor of Physiology in the University of London, and the author of ' Food and the Family '—one of the most important books in the short history of popular dietetics. In this series of Talks on present-day problems of food, he has already dealt with ' Modern Food Difficulties ' and ' What Food Is and What Is Food.' and to-day lie discusses the questions of 'Body Building and Body Warming.' A diagram. showing the relative food-values of various articles of diet, appears below.

Devised by GEORGE GROSSMITH from the Operas of Jacques Offenbach
Lyrics by ADRIAN Ross
Music arranged by JOHN ANSELL
The various numbers of this mélange will be sung by John Armstrong
VIVIENNE CHATTERTON
JOSEPH FARRINGTON
PETER GAWTHORNE
LEONARD HUBBARD
VIVIEN LAMBELET
GLADYS PALMER , and BLANCHE TOMLIN

By P. G. Wodehouse

Listeners have, in the course of this had opportunities of hearing typical broadcast programmes compiled according to the ideas of such different types of celebrity as, for instance, Mr. George Grossmith, Mr. Patsy Hendren, Mr. Phil Scott and Mr. J.C. Squire. To-night they will get yet another angle on 'the ideal programme,' when they hear what one of our most original humorists thinks it should be. Mr. Wodehouse is the creator of 'Archie,' the well-dressed young man whose self-assurance is rivalled only by his incompetence, but who is endowed with the most unwarranted good luck; of 'Jeeves,' the manservant in a million; of 'Ukridge,' the unexpected; of 'Mike' and 'Psmith,' and many more, and of a style of humorous writing that his many imitators have never been able to do quite so successfully as he does it himself.