Pitchfork Department It was patent in this ancient city, paradise of Statuary, that pigeons lacked respect for greatness. Lucky statesmen, innocent generals and forgiven...

Publisher's Proofs An Occupation For Gentlemen. By Fredric Warburg. (H utchinson, 2 Is.) AUR'OGCRAPIHY is a ditlicUlt form to write because, in its broadest definition, it is...

The Quiet Glades of Eden All such proclivities are tabulated By trained pathologists, in delail too - Ihe obscener paits of speech compulsively Shrou(led il noble Latin. BUt...

AUTUMN BOOKS Harrod and Hero -Worship BiX ANGUS WVILSON H EROLS and hero-worship, despite or maybe even a little because of Carlyle, have not played a very significant part...

The Drowning Stonc. By - *ugh Fosburgh. (Cape, 13s. 6d.) Short, tragic novel of man1-h1uLIt in remote North American forest, with gamIe warden doomed to pursue an1d destroy his...

Many Brave e-learts. By Donald McNultt DO)uglass. (Eyrc and Spottiswoode I 2s. 6d.) 13olivar Manchenil, the giant Negro police olicer of a Caribbean island, is one of the...

Deuth UnIder Sail, now reprinted by Hcinematin at 12s. 6d., a mal1ttel Ofr fL murdelr On the B3roads, typical of the middle-class. mildly intellectual puzzle stories of the...

AT TNist of Saind. By Geol rlcv Jenkillis. (Collins, t 5s.) The author of tills fil-st noVel is a sort of Cecil 13. dle M ille of thriller-writers: lhe clamlls everything ill....

The Pusher. By Ed Mcllain. (Boa rdmnan, I(s. 6d.) FaCtIal, realistic, qUite unsensational and utterly convincing tale of big-city prostitutioC and dope-pushing, seen from the...

The Maiden TriI)utc. By Charles Terrot. (Muller, 18s.) Sub-titled 'A Study ol the White Slave Triffic of the Nineteenth CentuLry,' but mostly about W. T. Stead's camipaign in...

THE BOYCOTTERS By James Tucker A Seven Sisters Colliery, near Neath, a notable victory for trade unionism has just been recorded. A few weeks ago the under-manager at the pit,...

Smile, Boys UJnollicial Hlistory. By 1Field-MNiarshal Sir William I Slimu. ((a ssell, 2 Is.) Shoot to Kill. B3y Richard Nliers. (laber. 18s.) I 'SOmi- Ireaders may t hii...

Crime on the Roads By BARBARA WOOTTON IF thousands of people were killed by some unexplained explosion in, let us say, Leeds, we should all be gravely concerned. If a year...

Wine of' the Week FoRt a long time, all I knew about vermouth de Chamberr y was that Maurice Healy had written about it twenty years ago as "an agreeable aperitif, which is not...

'T'H1E I'FESTi 'AIV IIALIL RALLY Smn,-- PIharos's generous column about the [lestival Hall NLucleCar lDisariairmment rlally provides some problems in literary detcction for...

TO FEED) THE HUNGRY SIR,--Last week you published Karl Miller's review of Dolci's book. To Feed t/he IHungry'. Dolci's position is often misunderstood. Mr. Miller's comments on...

THE 1929 CRASH Sw,--l always read what Nicholas lDavenport has to say with considerable interest, but I do feel he went awry in the last sentence of his article in your issue...

A MULJTI'I-RACI(IAL ClUB IN NMAURIT'IUS StR.--M- 'auritius is a small island in the middle of the Inrdianl OcCaI. aIbout the si/c of Surrcy, and 500 . iles roIn1...

THE, ESTABLISIHINIENT S --,-Nicolas Walter draws our attention to I-lesketh Pearson's aiccounlt of the eliect of the Establishment of those days onl Sydney Smith's career;...

ROOK WORK SIR.--YOUI correspondent L.cslic Adrian's remarks on Public libraries will. despite their patronizing tone, he generally welcomed by librarians. The remarks about...

Slit M.ty I correct ;ifly 11i1SWILICIstainding, that may halve arliseIl aIs a result of I es!ic Adrian's article in tihc issue of the */O'ImiIor tfor October 2, on the use of'...

CARRIER BAGS SIR.----I have read with much interest Leslie Adrian's article on carrier bags, and thought you might be interested to hear how I overcome the problem of being...

FALLING PRICES Sm,--- What is Mr. Bladen's authority for a fall of prices ol 50 per cent. between 181() and 185() and 60 per cent. between 1873 and 1896? Sauerbeck's index...

THE SEVEN FALLACIES SIR,- -Most of us know the Seven Mortal Sins. the Seven Cardinal Virtues, the Seven Wonders ol the World. Recently I saw a reference to the Seven Fallacies....

THE NEW NEUTRALITY T III:lR is an agrecably old-fashioned air abouLt the prroblem of what Italy calls the AltoAdige. and Austria Would preler to have remembere(l as the South...

I ATI:LNDI'D onily one election meeting: I had to, It took place just below my window. A very alratetlrish atlair it was, with a lorry drawn up in a Position from which the...

I-)Ot ANY'IBO)DY who still believes that the present two-party system inakes or the best of' all possible democratic worlds, 1 can only recommend a study of the article...

A DEP'RESSING PART' of the campaign was, as usual, the impossibility of getting ImluCh Sense Out Of the partics on the issues which affect our day-to-day lives. Traffic, for...

RUMOURS THAT I'H1UGH FRASER is to do away with charge accounts at Harrods seem to be gaining ground. A colleague who boarded a number 9 bus at Knightsbridge the other day was...

IIOW NMANY Vl( IRS. I wonder, changed their allegiance d1urinig the campaign not because they were converted by the other side's speeches but because of the nausea induced by...

IN IllS lRFVIEIW this week of the rcCCiltly published autobiography of Lord Hewart, Robert Lindley remarks of his eighteen-year term ol office as Lord Chief Justice that its...

Ends of the Earth ON April 29, l827. the Dey of Algiers struck the r-elncilh ('CosulII in tlhe f'ace with his fly-whisk. a small ivory stick tipped with peacock-feathers. To...

A Noble Enigma I 1 B E ( I-I R IS 1 0 1P H E R S Y K Em S I . . . --- ". I II',iltxiti. \ ALst utdies of Clergymclen arie a sI)LCU: 11 ~ste' ot tle dCVOuLt and eccnl uic. ht11...

Chalk ('lbalk, cakli I caot1-e111h1te, Shotdi mlld'i school' a sma~ll. neutrall stick; ncither cool nor hot. its Smell ShOUld C\voLkC wooden desks Slaming when stpitealk ing...

A Minister of Science BOIII t (he onIser tiVa i 1 l and L.Olabo- P'al tics B committed themselves in thle election ca1inpaign to appoilnt a MIinister of (or for) Scielce. The...

One of the Olympians F)rom ULICK O'CONNOR DUBLIN TIl leasves are fiIIling in I~uhlin only PadIaic T olum and John [-glinton remain of those who waere int lymckv associated...

Lord Chief Justice The Chief: The Biography of Gordon Hewart. BY| Robert Jackson. (Harrap, 2 Is.) LORD CHERWELL having been dealt with by ." Roy Harrod, Mr. Jackson has now...

B.B. BERNARD BERENSON'S death, at 94, will benefit Harvard University to the extent of his house outside Florence, its charming garden, its remarkable library, and its rather...

LETTERS X Marks (lie Sp)Ot P'twlm/a l)l1ml, Rev. AIan 11. BIalchelor, lBiirwa Jotherigill. Airs. .A Iulrev Harvev, Frank Lack, E. 7. I)avis Anti-Scnifiismi AIrihur (. Jaco.b...

Sii,- Aftce ,c.,ding the article in the Specialor of Octobilrr 2, 'Fhy Blest We (an D)o,' I amil wondering whether l'l- o peopCle would really prefer poVerty under the miien of...

As,-- As a Jew myself I thoroughly regret the evidenceCS of inti-Semniism of' the Appotintments Board at Cambiridge. But in my expIerince. antfScnmit ini doIs tiot comn by...

Shl --I ami sorly that NIr. D)8 ws hai chosen to mis- repriesent me oil tlie GovernmentMs housing record-by omilitt ljg iii c dates and inserting his own---becalise that sort...

SII.' I aill1 src a that Mr. Fvclyll Waugh is II()t the only ps.llil Nslii is stll[ in llg frm Contempt of Plaiatmcmii at the prcs lit tinic, but iI he is consistent ill...

A S,---M r. Brian Osborne appears to be curiously misinilformcd. Fhe I harpics.' of whom I havc been one durinzg winy election campaigns, do not 'squat outside polling stations...

SiRn.---Your correspondent, and miy countryman, Mr. Rohert P. Scott. tells us that 'toleration .; . is exported from Ireland in la rge quantities.' 'This may explain why it is...

Sim.t--I havc been told that in nmy letter of September 25 1 hvel by implication, included the Oxford University Appointments Committee in remarks that were intended for the...

Swil k r1. I vc! \ a\V ihk * pi p ; s to have ', CLuioHtLIly ]ilrniicd scllc of w!'hat Cll1itttltc a mnoral isstjC. If tlie istsues ra lid by even ts inl Central A frica arc...

AN'TI-SE\IIT'ISM S.i NI r. Robrt P). SCott's letCtl- is ai heCa Jtil'Ll exam plc of how, through misunderstanding its true natunre, thle dnlgerhs of ;iut i-Jewisillhess Canl...

COMPANY NOTES C ARRERAS, nlow controlled by the Rembrandt Tobacco ( ompany of South Africa, has maintained its trading profit for the past Period of eight months ending June...

Lugard and Livingstone I The Diaries of Lord Lugard 1889-1892. Edited by Margery Perham and Mary Bull. (Faber, 1 3 vols., 8 gns.) I David Livingstone: Family Letters...

Rui For Your Money. By H. Seymour. (J ohn Giliord, lOs. 6d.) There are some flash and phoney Americanisms scattered about this lively little bank-robbing piece, set in and...

It's a Crime I'll Die For You. By Stephen Ransome. (Gol lancz, 12s. 6d.) Young grass-widower is confronted by wistful blonde who claims that he-or somebody with his name, his...

Bishop Rock to Goodwins I The EMn ish (Clihnncl. Bv .1. A. Williaimason. I I ((Collis, 2"s.) lim. Channel w as created abOut eight thLouSaild years ago when thei North Sea...

Poor View of Molierc Moliere: The Comic Mask. By 1). B. WyVndham I Lewis. (I'yre and Spootisw-oodce, 25s.) I Tle Misianthlrop)e an11(I Other Plays. I3v INloli&rc. I...

if Illustratced Arguments 11 The Wis( Ill of the West. B3y Bertrand Russell. (.\Jacdonaild, £3 's.) The W1 i.h,,, of 1Me West is a new ,and striking dept ur1-111e in...

Monstrous Boys I ihc World That Summer. By Robert MuNller. (Iyre anld Spottiswoodc I6,z ) I I Old Letch. By Sylvester Stein. (J F ;ber, 15s.) - _, x- . " " . I A Strect in...

- Portrait oj the Week- voTErS VOTED, quite a number thereby cocking in electoral snook at Field-M arshal Viscount Montgonlery of Alamein, KG, who had said that anybody who...

Fun ny-Sick I Sick, Sick, Sick. By.1 LlIcs Feiffcr. i (Collins, IOs. 6d.) JtIl[IS 1Fvii;i +.R is a carloonist who draws by ear. He fits longer capt ions to his sketches than...