New Novels
How drab can life become? The life of an elementary school teacher in a slum near Manchester might be expected to plumb the depth of drabness pretty thoroughly; and Dorothy......
Ways And Means
EXTRACTS from Abroad on the Cheap. by Wendy Hall (Faber and Faber, 10s. 6d.), were chosen for this year's Spectator travel supple- ment; it is the best little guide of its kind......
Treasury Control
ON the special position of the Treasury, and on its relations with other Government depart- ments, Professor Samuel H. Beer makes some interesting points in his brief essay,......
Sir George Robey
IN 1891, at the age of twenty-two, George Robey, hitherto a civil engineer, appeared at the Oxford Music Hall in London. Thence- forward he was utterly successful in whatever......
Many-sided
PERE DE LUBAC is a French Jesuit of great learning and spirituality who has done much in the past to reawaken Roman Catholics to belief in the Church as the mystical body of......
Disenchantment
MR. CYRIL HUGHES HARTMANN is an accom- plished biographer. In The Enchanting Bellamy (Heinemann, 25s.) he writes with charm, sym- pathy and sense, and no one could have done......
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