Books: Skoolsfor Skandal

DOWN WITH SKOOL (106 pp.)—Geoffrey Willans & Ronald Searle—Vanguard ($2.50).

THE FEMALE APPROACH (147 pp.)—Ronald Searle—Knopf ($3.50).

Nigel Molesworth, no weed, cad, dirty rotter or funk, is the curse of St. Custard's, or so he claims. St. Custard's is a very English boys' school, built by a madman in Gothic tempered by Byzantine, and run by a monstrous regiment of headmaster, masters and matrons, against all of whom Nigel is plotting revolution. He proclaims: "When we arrive in our helicopters we shall take over the skool and feed all with cream. FREE THE SLAVES....

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