IN today's talk Mrs. Fisher continues her discussion of the effects of the French wars on English history, social, political, and economiceffeets very profound and far-reaching, that can still be clearly seen in, for instance, the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829, the first Reform Act of 1832, and the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846.

relayed from Westminster Abbey

: Songs by Arthur
Wynn, ' The Story of the King of the Dragons' (Philip Carmichael), ' Spring Suits at the Zoo,' by L. G. M., of the Daily Mail

Miss E. E. HELME : An Eye-Witness Account of the Ladies' London Golf Foursomes at Addington

THE tournament of tho sixteenth century, with which this talk deals, was a highly-organized and formal trial of skill, bearing about as much resemblance to the sanguinary, promiscuous fights to the death of the Middle Ages us a modern inter-Varsity boxing match does to an old-fashioned 'battle-royal.' The tournaments in which Henry VIII competed are notable chiefly for their rigid rules and the amazingly elaborate armour worn, and Mr. Ffoulkes, who is Curator of the Tower Armouries, and the author of many works on armour, has much of interest to say on these points.