Watts & Co.

INTRODUCTORY (1) prospero and aeriel It seems strangely appropriate that the entrance hall of Broadcasting House is presided over by Eric Gill's figures of Prospero and Ariel. I like to think of Prosper© as that benevolent and occasionally prosy despot, the controlling body of the B.B.C., the...

AUTOBIOGRAPHY I WAS born about eight o'clock in the morning on the 4th of May, 1825, EaHng, which was, at that time, as quiet a little country village as could be found within half-a-dozen miles of Hyde Park Corner. Now it is a suburb of London with, I believe, 30,000 inhabitants. My father was one...

PREFACE In spite of tlie apparent diversity of the amusements that seem to attract me, my life has but one object. It is wholly bent upon the accomplishment of one great scheme. I am writing the history of the Penguins. I labour sedulously at this task without allowing myself to be repelled by...