My dear Miss Beale I can’t resist telling you, apropos to your article about Mrs Dorothy Kilner’s books, that somehow they did gain a curious hold of children’s minds. In ‘Lecture graduées a translation of Tommy Piper appears, with Mr Makegood as Monsieur Réforme! A reproduction of the old book (how well the ‘cuts’ are given) was mine some 60 years ago. My young nephews and nieces constantly were borrowing it when the ... continue reading