rr HE problems of any old-style mental hospital, i built to nineteenth-century specifications and trying to come to terms with the twentieth century, are similar—no matter what...

7 lb. 3 oz. boy, and the press of some hundredweight of syco- phantic slush. But there was mourning as well as Jubilation in the Royal Family, because of the deaths of Lady...

A FORTNIGHT ago the Spectator urged that the boycott of South African goods should be postponed; not for the reasons put forward by opponents of the boycott in South Africa and...

No. 6870 Established 1828 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1960

1 N his article this week Richard Rovere explains that capital punishment is not an emotive issue in the US because nobody is in favour of it. There is no John Gordon to argue...

T liE views of Anthony Greenwood tend to I attract more attention outside the Labour Party than within it. The space which the press devoted on Monday to his message to his con...

I DEALLY, the Chancellor of Oxford University ought to be a distinguished figurehead, above faction; with the Vice-Chancellor as his fund . - raiser and administrator. Were this...

From SARAH GAINHAM BONN T tits country is full of ghosts, and one J them, hovering with warning moans over the living long after its own death, is Article 48 o r the Weimar...

the impression that only the popular news- papers were involved in the campaign against it : this, of course—as the editor of the Star points out in our correspondence...

From RICHARD H. ROVERE NEW YORK T ni big news out of California this past week turned out not to be the Winter Olympics or Vice-President Nixon's politicking but the re-...

Embarras d'embarras A MLRRY little drama is being played out, at this moment, in Iceland; and the last act, if all goes well, should provide some fine comedy, with the trousers...

By T. R. M. CREIGHTON T HE conclusion of the Kenya discussions, as well as their duration, are triumphs for Mr. Macleod's courage, diplomacy and enlightened liberalism; and...

VICKERS . . HAWKER SIDDELEY ENGLISH ELECTRIC DE HAVILLAND . . FAIREY BRISTOL WESTI.AND SHORT BROS. HUNTING .. BLACKBURN SAUNDERS - ROE .. HANDLEY PAGE ..

By ERSKINE B. CHILDERS E ARLY this Month, two events—One in the Suez Canal roads at Port Said, the other by the waters of the Jordan—brought back the Arab- Israeli conflict...

Trcbk the Tax By R. A. CLINE B ETWEEN tax laws and justice the conne,nion is already tenuous, but the little there is has assuredly not been strengthened by the judgment of...

From MICHAEL ADAMS BEIRUT M R. DAG HAMMARSKJ&D, referring last week to the signs of renewed tension in the Middle East, spoke of an atmosphere of general mistrust Which has not...

By VICTOR GORDON p om the house in Kipini of the District Corn- responsible for Hola you can see the graves of three previous DCs—two of them s uicides. This part of Kenya is...

SIR,—Monica Furlong on childbirth takes some nice pot-shots at the theorists (most of them men), but, like every other mother on the subject, is talking from a very narrow...

the critics and commentators—the Spectator as well as Messrs. Foot and Mikardo—who are confus- ing matters. Quite simply Mr. Gaitskell makes two points: (1) The Labour Party...

T Raymond Challinor, Tont Baisiow, Silvan Jones ele phone-Tapping Patrick Marrinan Unnatural Childbirth Preludin Ralph McCarthy Isabel Quigly News of the World Beer and...

criticisms to quoting two people who were perhaps in a better position to judge of my conduct than he was. The first, a distinguished member of the Bur who was in my Chambers,...

of its contributors' writing—although h m always its odd interpretations of radicalism—I .ani saddened to see it demonstrating once again its failur e to grasp what Socialism is...

issue in the tip-and-run conditions of a correspondence column. But let me develop my Point at least a little. It is a historically broad one : just as one can say that monarchy...

'interest' in 'literature' gives no person the right to set himself up as a critic of any part of literature, and no critic can expect to be authoritative over more than a small...

precious and supercilious, but surely Mr. Tom Scott's suggestion that no one is competent to review Scottish poetry unless he has a knowledge of the Gaelic is ridiculous. Bah!...

silly, and never more Co mically so than in last week's issue. You say: 'The fuss over Preludin is an interesting example of the - way the Home Office . . . can still be...

Slk.—A propos Bernard Levin's illuminating article . on how the other half writes, I shall never forget the look of dawning horror on the face of a charming American friend of...

the ,u . eer halls in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasa- id nd was datelined 'Lusaka,' but, a week or so ago, I !Pent an hour wandering around several of the beer n a,Ils in...

cases, a pointless incivility. But I feel bound to comment briefly on Lord Raglan's criticisms of From Caesar to Arthur, since (no doubt unintentionally) they give a quite wrong...

just over a year ago, to reply and comment on an article dealing with hairdressing, I would be grateful if you could give me the same facilities now to observe on Miss...

Graves of Academe By DAVID CAIRNS THE difficulty that con- fronts a critic of the London colleges of music is the difficulty that con- fronts the critic of all vaguely...

SIR, --- Mr. Robert Manning is out of date in sayin2 that 'Africans . . . in the post office . . . must stand in a black line . . . while the White Only clerks do crossword...

The Tarlatan Jungle By CLIVE BARNES Ballet is a tarlatan jungle, in which if not the fittest, at least only the toughest can survive. Since the war Britain has seen half a...

Lesson in Love By ISABEL QUIGLY The 400 Blows. (Curzon.) ANTOINE, the twelve - year- old hero of The 400 Blows (director : Francois Truffaut; 'A' certificate), hears his...

C mous stood, I think, for two things—an affir- mation and a style. The affirmation has been one of the great hopes of my generation; the style, though impressive, is surely...

A MEANINGLESS moralist,' an 'imperfect novelist' and 'precarious humanist,' a man with 'obvious talents for illustration' who in his novels 'substitutes rhetoric for shaped...

Albert Cam us Moralist C Amos saw himself as a moralist,and this is how Miss Brde* accepts him; she has made a com- aild Pr ehensive study of the play of ideas in his work, of...

Light Blue, Dark Blue: An Anthology of Oxford To anyone out of date enough to suppose that Oxford and Cambridge arc still full of rebels, this tidy-minded anthology is a...

ERICH KXSTNER was, I think, the only author who was present to see his own books being burned in Berlin's Franzjosefsplatz on the night of May 10, 1933. Freud was still safe in...

The Necessary Angel. By Wallace Stevens. (Faber, 21s.) uark Conceit: The Making of Allegory. By Edwin , 13 , 1 G poets can ask a lot of their readers; or rather, t neY offer a...

J ameson's Raid. By Elizabeth Pakenham, (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 36s.) I liE story of the Jameson raid has all the in- g r edients of tragi-comedy, and Lady Pakenham t ells it...

Literature and Western Man. By J. B. Priestley. (Heinemann, 42s.) THE people for whom this book is intended are, according to Mr. Priestley's introduction, neither critics and...

JAMES was content that Roderick Hudson should be thought his first novel. Actually that Pl aee properly belongs to Watch and Ward, which 4 .1 3 1)eared as a serial in the...

DAVENPORT By NICHOLAS So many City people have been cocking a snook at the Governor of the Bank that Lam beginning to feel anxious. Twice Mr. Cobbold has expressed his disquiet...

H ARPER ENGINEERING AND ELEC- TRONICS has made very considerable expansion, having acquired eight companies during the past fourteen months for a considera- tion of €904,000 in...

By CUSTOS A BETTER tone developed in the equity markets this week on the recovery in Wall Street. but the volume of trading is still small and the market scnsitive to bad news...

Wet All Over By KATHARINE WHITEHORN This is a highly comprehensive book, dealing with washstands and commodes and the history of soap, with medicated and ceremonial baths,...

By GAVI"N LYALL RE,CEN1Ly, the Court of Appeal awarded damages to a plaintiff who had bought a secondhand car on hire purchase and, when it turned out to be 'utterly un-...

Ail 1 E 85 GETTING on for half a tourists are expected here thi.' year, according to the GO National Tourist Organ" tion, which is to have the Let the hardy halt-million take...

Time To Decide By LESLIE ADRIAN In the meantime, they plan even greater re- finements of comfort for the late-night viewers at the two new stores they are opening at Ilford and...

It Ramillies. 12 Litigant. 13 Effete. 15 Both. 16 Oben. 17 Erica. 20 Greed. 21 Drop. 22 Glee, 24 Marble, 26 Dragoons. 29 Scantling. 30 Ammon. 31 So-so. 32 Firstlings. DOWN.-1,...

Solution en March 11 ACROSS 1 Sisyphean task that gathers no Bryophyte! (7, 5) 9 Where cash is king? (9) 10 Its early for Matthew to be at home (5) II I trade in invective (6)...