I Suppose The Original Signpost Was Simply A Board Stuck
up on a post, so as to be out of the reach of boys, with a place-name on it. "To Erewhon," it said, or perhaps just "Erewhon." There were few main roads, and on them milestones......
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During the war most British soldiers got the impression that the American Army was more wasteful of man-power than we were, and that their field forces carried far bigger......
I Do Not Know If The Ministry Of Food's Purchase
of eight pigs from mc last April counts as bulk buying, but if it does I am in agreement with critics of the practice. When I sent the pigs into market (where I am compelled to......
A Spectator's Notebook
W E no longer talk about the "lower orders," and an almost equally cogent tabu has virtually deleted from our vocabulary all allusions to the "upper classes." The middle class,......
It Was With A Faint Chill Of Horror That I
read in The Times an advertisement which ran "Gentleman would like to contact person capable of writing good after-dinner speeches. Plenty of humour." The implications of this......
Western Union
T HIS is a week momentous for the future of Western Europe. Between the meetings of the Council of Europe—Committee of -Ministers and Consultative Assembly—at Strasbourg and......
Before Handing Back This Notebook To Less Wayward Hands (for
to the general relief the steam-packet has brought Janus back safely from who can say what escapades in Europe) I Should like to thank (a) the reader who wrote from Whetstone in......
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