BILLY BUNTER
Sir,-I read your article " Good-bye Billy Bunter" with a sense of personal loss as the adventures of the heroes of Greyfriars School were practically part and parcel of my boyhood days. From the age of ten to well on into the ’teens I never missed a number of either the "Magnet" or the "Gem," and can remember receiving a caning from an irate teacher for surreptitiously perusing a "Gem" concealed in my desk during lesson time. Of the two, I always preferred the "Gem" with its adventures of Tom Merry and Co. at "St. Jim’s," written by Martin Clifford. The "Gem" stories were, in my opinion, on a slightly higher plane with more pretensions to literary style, while the illustrations were also superior, being at one period executed by Warwick Reynolds who illustrated for the "Strand" and other well-known magazines. I must add that I did not neglect the better type of school story written by such authors as Talbot Baines Reed, Desmond Coke, P. G. Wodehouse (yes, the same "P.G.") and others, and I can still remember the thrill of reading for the first time that great fore-runner of them all: "Tom Brown’s Schooldays."
W. L.
SIMS
(Onehunga).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 68, 11 October 1940, Page 16
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