Set by Six Fellows of St. John's College, Cambridge 1. What is a (a) Prandtl Number? (b) Number on Moh's Scale? (c) Number on Ringelmann's Scale? (d) Kochel Number? (e)...

NE of the commonplaces of Christian journal- r% ism and of the more august sort of sermon is the assertion that Christianity attaches supreme importance to human personality....

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1958

THE RUSH GREW more frenzied, the post later in the morning, the stock in the shops lower, the streets more impassable. President Eisenhower broadcast a tape-recorded message of...

T ill. Great Divide between science and the arts at universities, currently being discussed in our correspondence columns, is bound to arouse increasing controversy in coming...

By our Industrial Correspondent El ROM now until the next Trades Union jr Congress in September, the National Amal- gamated Stevedores and Dockers, a determined little...

CUNNING PORNOGRAPHERS can keep well within the law. Less careful ones, judging by the ease with which dirty books and booklets can be obtained by those who want them, have no...

an inquiry into the Suez war is that Sir Anthony Eden will shortly be giving his version of events and this will give the Government an advantage at the general election. But if...

Anglo-French forces had reached the end of the Canal is escapist nonsense, but it is less incredible than another idea of Mr. Head's. 'Sir Anthony Eden,' he told the Commons,...

suggestion that what have come ominously to be known as 'committal proceedings' before magistrates should be done away with, subject to the option of the accused person to...

the Canal had been occupied? Even if the Russians had not joined in with 'volunteers' or rockets, and even if the country had not gone • bankrupt, we should still have been in a...

they started in the CLUBS century, their purpose was for friends to meet, eat, drink, gamble, hobnob. A Victorian gloom settled on them in the last cen- tury. Guests, if not...

and he said the trouble was that almost all of them nowadays had to be virtually full-time professional politicians. They might become very good at their Parliamentary work, but...

silly or misleading advertisements put out by the tourist authorities here, designed to lure dollar spenders over. There was one, I remem- ber, which actually boasted about the...

By DAVID THOMSON* N EVER have the Generals had it better than in the last six months. It began with - the revolt of the Generals and Colonels in Algeria, which led to the...

A Question of Diet By ALAN BRIEN Two for the Seesaw. (Hay- . ..4 r Two for the Seesaw is a play about love—oddly enough a rare subject for plays in English. e"--- It is a play...

She Cat `SEX CAT,' said girl wearing a bouffant-skirted blue dress with a high neck, stood in the River Room of the Savoy Hotel. About her, like a throng of admirers round a...

DECEMBER 28, 1833 IN short, the Pantomimc of old is extinct. All is "inexplicable dumb-show and noise." The scenery alone constitutes the , chief attraction. Harlequin is a...

The Shrinking Year By A. V. COTON IN the annals of ballet of the twentieth century, 1958 stands a good chance of being listed as the year of The Great Shrink- ./ age. The two...

The Did-Gooders of 1958 By KENNETH J. ROBINSON THIS business of looking back at the year can be painful as well as difficult. Unlike the film or theatre critic, I can't make a...

Hits in the Dark By ISABEL QUIGLY No Best Ten, this time. I have made, then torn into small, angry bits, too many tentative lists of the Ten Best Films of 1958, and asked...

The Gold Rush By PETER FORSTER HARK to the words of Mr. John Spencer Wills, chairman of Associated-Rediffusion, in his annual address of Novem- ber 25: 'Although some critics...

One must be drawn by any player landing on any `Take a Chance' square, and instructions followed immediately. You sell Caesar's Gallic Wars to The Times for £100,000. Atticus...

The Diner Out By LESLIE ADRIAN Last year I sent out a list of recommended restaurants to people who wrote in for them : and I was astonished by the number of readers who did....

Babies and Mothers By MILES HOWARD WHERE should the first baby be born? At home or in hospital? It has become fashionable in this country, as in America, for the woman...

By STRIX 'Tout' sort of chap he must be, don't you think?' j said the actress. 'Or do you suppose it's a roman?' The anonymous telegram was quite short. Its purpose was to...

York Minster Dr. R. L. Kitching Wolfenden Debate A. A. Dumont, Rev. A. Hallidie Smith Labour Bishop Sir Geoffrey Mander, Rev. Victor H. Beaton Choice Before Europe H. G....

reference to Mervyn Stockwood whether this was the first time that the Crown has nominated a Labour bishop during a Tory regime. No, sir, it is not. Mr. Baldwin in 1928 advised...

reproach the West for lack of a policy towards a future reunified Germany without suggesting what such a policy might be. While it is no doubt true that a future Federal...

appal you into submission. But is he not entirely erroneous in his interpretation? If he will read the Wolfenden Report he will see that the carpet under which Pharos would...

SIR,—In the article 'A New Westminster' (Spectator, November 21) I learn the shocking news that West- minster Abbey is to be demolished. My shock is the greater to see the...

should be on May Day. We will know it as St. Philip's and St. James's. Who can tell (and who will care) whether he will wear gaiters? But rumour has it some Cambridge...

of homosexuality as the Spectator has been generous in the amount of space it has already given to this discussion. However, during this week, there have been reports in the...

the key to the storehouse of memory should he available to the neurosurgeon and not to me when I want it.' Electrical stiriMlus is not the only key. He will find another if he...

1. (a) Kinematic Viscosity divided by Thermal Conductivity. (b) Measure of hardness. (c) Measure of blackness of smoke. (d) Number in catalogue of works of Mozart. (e) Measure...

SIR,—In David Rees's review of John Wesley and the Catholic Church, by John M. Todd (Spectator, December 5), he writes: (Wesley) 'believed in the apostolic succession and. the...

SIR,—The longest word in the English language (Spectator, December 5, 1958, page 827): 'antidis- establishmentarianism' (twenty-eight letters). Really? What about...

If this county were a sea (that is solid rock Deeper than any sea) these hills heaving Out of the east, mass behind mass, at this height Hoisting heather and stones to the sky...

Hands swung his small damp sister out of bed. He wakened howling. His mother shook her head. 'Oo's old enough to sleep alone,' she said. Limb over limb, lover and lady tread....

A Literary Exile BY PETER QUENNELL HE English are proud of their language; but I they do not regard it as a national sanctuary, with an innermost shrine that only a true-born...

Still Life: William Soutar 1898-1941 By Alexan- der Scott. (Chambers, 25s.) IN the Scottish literature of the last fifty years, which has its own strain of illness and courage,...

The Arts, Artists and Thinkers, A Symposium edited by John M. Todd. (Longmans, 35s.) THE contributors to this symposium—mostly Catholic laymen meeting at the Benedictine abbey...

LONGMANS have now reprinted nearly all of Mr. Cozzens's mature work before By Love Possessed. The first three, A Cure of Flesh (12s. 6d.), Men and Brethren (12s. 6d.) and Ask Me...

Television and the Child. By Hilde T. Himmel- weit, A. N. Oppenheim and Pamela Vince. (O.U.P., for the Nuffield Foundation, 42s.) WELL, things, I'm afraid, aren't nearly as...

12s. 6d.) Light , bright, faintly fantasticated New York mystery with a succession of murders, aseptically off-stage and some cosy Connecticut characters.

Maigret's First Case and Inquest on Bouvet. B Simenon. (Hamish Hamilton, 1 Is. 6d. each.) On ' of this pair of novels seems to have been trans lated by an Englishman, and one by...

Red Carpet to China. By Michael Croft. (Long- mans, 21s.) The Chinese Smile. By Nigel Cameron. (Hutchin- son, 21s.) CHINA is evidently a particularly demanding exer- cise for a...

6d.) Nevada's equivalents o f our own (by comparison) rather disarminglY decent and dandyish Teddy-boys are motor bicycle-borne adolescent hoodlums who, in thi book, are led by...

A Survey of Social Conditions in England and Wales. By A. M. Carr-Saunders, D. Caradog Jones and C. A. Moser. (O.U.P., 25s.) WHY do books with fine titles such as these have to...

10s. 6d.) American novel of suspense, in which a lawyer's wife is kidnapped, and , the husband bites his nails until he knows what's happened to her, and then racks his brains...

and a series of cop-killings in big American city, teeming with tarts and Puerto Ricans and adolescent thugs. Pretty simple and pretty transparent plot, but quite outstanding fo...

Italian Renaissance Sculpture. By John Pope Hennessy. (Phaidon, 90s.) Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750. By Rudolf Wittkower. (Penguin, 70s.) OF the two, Mr....

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT As the year closes it is pertinent to ask ourselves, avoiding any wishful thinking, .exactly what has been the financial lesson of 1958. The romanticists...

J OHN SUMMERS & SONS has, like South Durham Iron and Steel, stepped up the ordinary dividend by 2 per cent. by a final payment of 10 per cent. . , making 16 per cent. for the...

read: Life is Sweet! Drive carefully in Street. Competitors are asked to compose similar rhym- ing admonitions for any three towns in Great Britain (e.g., 'It isn't good...

ACROSS.-1 Camera. 4 Tithe-pig. It Knap- sack. 10 Frieze. 12 Tutor. 13 Pointless, 14 Neak. 16 Instances. 17 Bath-chair. 19 Bask. 21 Alarm-bell. 22 Lamm. 24 Spills. 25 Cynosure....

ACROSS 1 Comparisons to him were odorous (8) 5 Is port drunk in this toast? (6) 9 Flowers much employed in rumi- nation (8) It) I tell you I am very fit (6) 12 Neacra's...

SPECTATOR COMPETITION No. 460: Report by Blossom Bob Cratchit's Christmas celebration having been immortalised by Charles Dickens, competitors were asked to do the same thing...