Oct 1948

Guests : Each Old Peterite may apply for a ticket for one male guest, which will be issued only if space is available.

The room holds 6o persons.

Chairman : The Bishop of Lincoln has consented to be Chairman.

Short Speeches : A number of Old Peterites representing various walks of life have been asked to speak for not more than five minutes each.

Application for Tickets : 16/- to be sent to J. B. Gedge, 55 Glenalmond House, Manor Fields, Putney, S.W.I5.

Any Old Peterites residing in London will be welcome even if not yet members of the Old Peterite Club.

Will Old Peterites knowing the addresses of other Old Peterites living in London, who are not in the present List of Members, please send the addresses to J. B. Gedge.

S. S. PAWLE, J. B. GEDGE, J. C. RODGERS, London Committee.

ITEMS O.P.'s will be interested in the publication of The Scandinavians in History, by Mr. S. M. Toyne, who was Headmaster of the School from 1913 to 1937. The book is designed primarily for history students, for whom it will supply a real need, for there is justice in Mr. Toyne's claim that the references to the Scandinavians in our histories are "meagre and disconnected". Professor G. M. Trevelyan, who contributes a foreword to the work, writes : "We are all aware of our kinship to them (the Scandinavian peoples), our debt to them in the remote past, and our likeness to them in the present. We are indeed blood of their blood and bone of their bone. . . . The interest of the book is that it tells a long story, going down the ages, of people very like ourselves but living under different geographical conditions.

It is at once so like to and so different from British history."

The Scandinavians in History (Demy 8vo, 352 pages, with 8 plates and 4 maps, bibliography and index) is published by Edward Arnold and Co. at 18s.

We hear that J. C. M. Rayson (The Rise, 1942-47), who captained the School XI in 1946 and 1947, has had a most successful cricket season playing for the D.C.L.I. In the ten matches he played he amassed 616 runs, with an average of 77. His best scores were 146 and 103 not out. G. C. Greetham (School House, 1944-47), who gained his 1st XI colours in 1947, played in the same team and had an average of 35. It is satisfactory that the St. Peter's pair contributed more than half the runs scored by the D.C.L.I. in the course of the season.

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