17 AUGUST 1956, page 20

Petticoat Curtain

The Iron Petticoat, as you can guess from the title, is a kind of latter - day Ninotchka in which the humour that sparks from the meet- ing of East and West has grown (as it......

Losing A Sail

By walls half-built to bar the creeping tide, A ruined church, a pewter-coloured sea, Salt stagnant ponds : the marram stalks are plied Beneath a wind that snaps all withering......

Two Poems A Roman Grave Two Poems A Roman Grave

When a commanding chariot carved Its tracks in dust, and soldiers yawned Beneath a portico, and starved For want of fighting, this unknown Centurion led a victory That gave his......

Tor 6prttator

AUGUST 20, 1831 WE have received a pamphlet by Captain WOODLEY, in answer to some observations on `his (Captain Woodley's) System of the Uni - verse.' We are unlucky in never......

Behind T He Screen

A FEW days ago I was in Manchester and wished to see what kind of a show Mr. Bernstein's Granada is putting on. Mr. Bernstein is one of the white hopes of com- mercial......