15 FEBRUARY 1930, page 11

The Bird In The Monkey-tree

L IFE, it seems to me now, ought always to be lived just a few degrees below delirium. That is one of the things I have discovered during the last week or so. Another is that......

Capital Punishment

Essay Competition THE Select Committee of the House of Commons appointed to consider the question of Capital Punish- ment held its first public session on Wednesday, January......

The Spectator.

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Correspondence

A LETTER FROM EDINBURGH. [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIB,—The advent of Mr. Baldwin, with his magnificent tribute to Sir Walter Scott made during the dinner held in honour......